Ex parte Chatfield

Petitioner was examined in the police court of the city and county of San Francisco on a charge *664of obtaining money under false pretenses, and was committed for trial to the superior court. He asks to be discharged on habeas corpus, under subdivision 7 of section 1487 of the Penal Code, upon the ground that he was committed without reasonable or probable cause. His contention is that the evidence was not sufficient to warrant his being held, in that the alleged false pretense was not “proven by the testimony of two witnesses, or that of one witness and corroborating circumstances,” as required…