Bakkenson

The petitioner herein applies for a writ of prohibition directed against the respondents, Superior Court in and for the County of Los Angeles and Walter C. Guerin, one of the Judges thereof, forbidding said respondents to take and exercise jurisdiction over a certain case entitled People v. Bakkenson on appeal from the justice’s court of Los Angeles township, in which case the petitioner herein is charged with the commission of a misdemeanor alleged to have been committed on the twenty-eighth day of July, 1925, within the said township of Los Angeles County, but outside of the portion thereof which lies within the eor porate limits of the city of Los Angeles and also outside of the portion thereof which lies or at least formerly lay within the corporate limits of the city of Long Beach. The questions involved in this proceeding relate to the interpretation to be given to what is known as the municipal court amendment to section 11a of article VI of the state constitution and to the legislation adopted by the legislature of 1925 for the purpose of giving effect to said amendment to the constitution; and also as to the validity and application of certain amendments to the charter of…