Ex parte Nichols

The petitioner,William Nichols, asks, on a writ of habeas corpus, to be discharged, from the custody of Carl Bank, superintendent of the Preston School of Industry, situated in Amador county. He was convicted in a justice’s court of petit larceny, and, being under the age of eighteen years, the justice ad*653judged that he was a fit subject for commitment to said school, suspended judgment, and committed him to said school until he should be twenty-one years old, unless, sooner legally discharged. The commitment was approved by the superior judge of the county, as provided by section 16 of an act…