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Ex parte Ruffin

Supreme Court of California
Dec 30, 1897
119 Cal. 487 (Cal. 1897)

Opinion

         Rehearing Denied.

         APPLICATION for writ of habeas corpus from the Supreme Court to the sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco, to test the validity of a judgment of conviction of the Police Court of said City and County. Charles T. Conlan, Judge.

         COUNSEL:

         Robert Ash, and George Hayford, for Petitioner.


         JUDGES: In Bank.

         OPINION

         THE COURT          The petitioner is imprisoned under a judgment convicting him of defrauding an innkeeper. He demands his release upon the ground that the statute creating the offense has been repealed.

         On March 10, 1887, a statute was enacted under the following title: "An act to add a new section to the Penal Code, to be known as section 537, relative to personal property mortgaged."

         March 1, 1889, another statute was enacted under the following title: "An act to add a new section to the Penal Code, to be known as section 537, relating to defrauding proprietors and managers of hotels, inns, restaurants, boarding-houses, and lodging-houses."

         By these statutes two new sections were added to the Penal Code, each numbered 537.

         March 9, 1893, another statute was enacted under the following title: "An act to amend section 537 of the Penal Code and to add a new section thereto, to be [51 P. 863] known and designated as section 538, relating to the removal, sale, or subsequent encumbrance of mortgaged chattels."

         The contention on the part of petitioner is that this last cited act, which relates exclusively to the subject indicated by its title, repealed the act of 1889, by which the crime of defrauding innkeepers was defined, as well as the act of 1887, defining the crime of defrauding mortgagees of personal property. We think it clear that it repealed only the last-mentioned act.

         There is no merit in the further contention that the act of 1889 is unconstitutional.

         Writ denied.


Summaries of

Ex parte Ruffin

Supreme Court of California
Dec 30, 1897
119 Cal. 487 (Cal. 1897)
Case details for

Ex parte Ruffin

Case Details

Full title:Ex parte R. W. RUFFIN on Habeas Corpus

Court:Supreme Court of California

Date published: Dec 30, 1897

Citations

119 Cal. 487 (Cal. 1897)
51 P. 862

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