In Re Moore

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus to secure the release of petitioner from detention after a preliminary examination in the justice’s court upon a complaint charging him with the crime of selling intoxicating liquor in violation of what is generally known as the Wright Act [Stats. 1921, p. 79]. Petitioner was bound over to the superior court for Orange County, and he now seeks his discharge upon the ground that the order holding him to answer was made without reasonable or probable cause.

The testimony, as set out in the transcript, shows substantially the following: On…