In Re Kennedy
California Supreme Court
PETITION for discharge under Habeas Corpus by a defendant held by the sheriff under an indictment by the grand jury filed in the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. William P. Lawlor, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.' A. S. Newburgh, and William H. Schooler, for Petitioner.
1Opinion of the CourtMcFARLAND, J.
This is a petition to this court in behalf of William B. Kennedy for'his discharge on habeas corpus. The writ issued, and upon the return of the sheriff, who holds Kennedy, the matter was heard and submitted.
The petition sets forth a large number of arrests of Kennedy on various charges, and subsequent discharges from such arrests by superior court judges on habeas corpus; but while these various proceedings may tend to support the contention that these prosecutions were somewhat in the nature of persecutions, they are irrelevant to this present case. Kennedy is now held under a warrant of…
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