IN RE WARD

Docket No. 17736.

82 Cal.App.3d 981 (1978)

147 Cal. Rptr. 476

In re WILLIAM WARD on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Four.

July 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Fleishman, Brown, Weston & Rohde and David M. Brown for Petitioner.

David J. Levy, City Attorney, and Mark Commerford, Deputy City Attorney, for Respondent.


OPINION

CHRISTIAN, J.

William Ward seeks a writ of habeas corpus to annul a 15-day sentence for contempt of court (Pen. Code, § 166) imposed for violation of a preliminary injunction.

Petitioner is a defendant in an action commenced by the City Attorney of Concord to enjoin as a nuisance the exhibition of an allegedly obscene motion picture. He challenges the validity of the preliminary injunction,

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