In Re Jang

Petitioner by this proceeding in habeas corpus seeks to be released from the custody of the sheriff, after having been held to answer for trial in the superior court on a charge of having given a bribe to Marshall Burnett, an inspector of the state narcotic division. Shortly before the alleged illegal transaction took place Burnett and Inspector Armstrong arrested one Quon Choy for illegal sale of narcotics; and the substance of the charge set forth in the complaint filed against petitioner is that Burnett was about to be called as a witness in the Quon Choy case and that petitioner gave him…