In re Wolff

[1] Habeas corpus does not lie after judgment of conviction of a crime for any cause except want of jurisdiction in the court which rendered the judgment. The claim of petitioner is that there was a want of jurisdiction in the superior court of Kern County to render the judgment of conviction, because, after the justice of the peace had found the defendant to be under eighteen years of age and had certified the case to the superior court for proceedings in its capacity as juvenile court, and in pursu *603 ance of said court’s directions a complaint had been filed by the probation officer against the defendant, the said superior court in its capacity as juvenile court proceeded to determine that the defendant was “not a fit subject for further consideration under the terms of the juvenile court law” without making any findings of fact on that subject, or taking any evidence on the hearing tending to show said fact so determined, and without making any order setting the case down for a hearing for that purpose.

The record shows that the proceedings in the juvenile court were in all respects regular, and that evidence was taken showing the defendant’s character and the nature of his…