In re Emch

— The petition shows that the applicant was committed to the State School for Girls on September 19, 1921, she at the time being of the age of seventeen years, there to remain until she arrived at the age of twenty-one. The answer to the petition discloses that questions of law and fact presented to this court on this application for a writ of habeas corpus had prior thereto been presented to the superior court of King county in a similar petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and that the petition had there been denied.

While it is true that § 4, art. 4, of the state constitution gives this…