Case Name: MURPHY v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COLUSA COUNTY
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1881
Citations: 58 Cal. 520
Docket Number: No. 7,853
Parties: MURPHY v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COLUSA COUNTY.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 58
Pages: 520–520

Head Matter:
[No. 7,853.
In Bank.]
MURPHY v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COLUSA COUNTY.
Prohibition—Jurisdiction—Preliminary Examination.—Upon an application for a writ of prohibition, to stop the trial of an information against the plaintiff for assault with intent to commit murder, the grounds alleged were, that the magistrate before whom the preliminary examination took place, did not examine on oath or otherwise the prosecutor or any other witness, etc.
Held, That-the omissions complained of did not affect the question of jurisdiction, and that therefore prohibition was not the proper remedy.
Application for a writ of prohibition.
Jackson Hatch,, for the Plaintiff.
A. L. Hart, Attorney-General, for Defendant.

Opinion:
The Court:
This is an application for a writ of prohibition to stop the trial of a ease now pending in the Superior Court within and for the County of Colusa. The application sets forth that the petitioner is being prosecuted by information in said Court for the crime of an assault with intent to commit murder, and that the magistrate before whom the preliminary examination took place, " did not examine on oath or otherwise the informer or prosecutor, and did not examine on oath or otherwise any witness or witnesses, and did not take any deposition or depositions of any witness or witnesses, and no depositions of the informer or prosecutor, or any witness or witnesses produced by the informer or any other person was or were taken or subscribed at all or at said time."
Conceding the above facts, the omissions complained of did not affect the question of jurisdiction, and therefore prohibition is not the proper remedy.
Writ dismissed.