In Re Watson

BARTLETT, J., pro tem.

Petitioner seeks his discharge on habeas corpus from imprisonment in the county jail of Solano County, alleging that his imprisonment is illegal and without any authority of law. The return to the writ shows that on June 4, 1923, an affidavit was made before the police judge of the city of Vallejo by one W. 0. Watson charging that “on June 4tli, 1923, James Warren Watson had been for a period of several weeks last past, and then and there is a person who from the inordinate use of alcoholic liquor and the influence thereof is irresponsible in his acts and insane…