STANLEY v. JUSTICE COURT

Docket No. 14535.

55 Cal.App.3d 244 (1976)

127 Cal. Rptr. 532

DOUGLAS HARRY STANLEY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. THE JUSTICE COURT FOR THE AUBURN JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF PLACER COUNTY et al., Defendants and Respondents; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

February 13, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Joseph Q. Joynt and Robert M. Holley for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Marjory Winston Parker and Susan E. Cohn, Deputy Attorneys General, and Daniel J. Higgins, District Attorney, for Defendants and Respondents and for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.


OPINION

PUGLIA, P.J.

The resolution of this appeal requires that we interpret the qualifying phrase "nearest or most accessible" as descriptive of the magistrate before whom one arrested for felony without a warrant must be taken "without unnecessary delay." (Pen. Code, § 849, subd. (a).)1 Appellant2 herein asserts that the qualifying phrase imposes essentially a geographic...

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