Ex parte Stratman

Wallace, J.,

delivered the following opinion, Rhodes, C. J., and Temple, J., concurring:

The petitioner, John Stratman, is imprisoned in the common jail of the City and County of San Francisco, pursuant to a final judgment rendered against him on August 15th last, in the Municipal Court of said city and county, directing him to be imprisoned for the period of six months as a punishment for the crime of libel.

He prosecutes this writ of habeas corpus to be relieved of the imprisonment, and alleges that his detention is illegal upon two several principal grounds,

One of these concerns the…