Ex Parte Drexel

These two causes are submitted together and involve the same questions. Each is a petitioner upon habeas corpus to be discharged from what is alleged to be an illegal imprisonment. Each petitioner is imprisoned upon a charge of misdemeanor for violating ascertain act of the legislature of this state, approved March 7, 1905, which may be generally designated as the “Anti Trade Stamp or Coupon Act” (Stats. 1905, p. 67); and each contends that ■said act is invalid and is violative of section 1 of article I ■of the constitution of California, which declares that all men have the inalienable…