Ex parte Henshaw

Thornton, J.,

dissenting.—Application for writ of habeas corpus.

The only inquiry to be made herein is, whether the court had jurisdiction to imprison the petitioner for a contempt in the case before us.

The petitioner is held to be in contempt for refusing to obey a judgment of the Superior Court of the county of Alameda, rendered and given in the case of People ex rel. Daniels against the petitioner.

Unless the judgment is void, the court had jurisdiction, and the imprisonment for contempt is valid.

The inquiry there relates to the judgment rendered.

This judgment was rendered in a case in which…