¶1The application for a writ of habeas corpus is denied. The recent amendment of sections 1, 11, and 15 of article VI of the constitution does not abolish the justices courts and other inferior courts which had been previously established by acts of the legislature. They remain in existence with the jurisdiction vested in them by the acts creating them, until the legislature shall, in the exercise of the power given by the section as amended, otherwise provide.
161 Cal. 238
In re Woods
Decided October 20, 1911
California Supreme Court · decided 1911-10-20
The Petitioner was held in custody by the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, in pursuance of a Commitment issued out of the justice’s court of Los Angeles township on the fourteenth day of October, 1911. He claimed to be entitled to be discharged from such custody on the ground that by a constitutional amendment adopted on the tenth day of October, 1911, the office of justice of the peace was abolished. The further facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1928
3 state decisions
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1911-10-20
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