Ex parte Ah Peen

By the Court:

It appears by the return to the writ that in August last the police judge of the city and county of San Francisco, upon application and complaint made to him in that behalf by two citizens of the State, residents of the city and county, alleging that Ah Peen, the legality of whose detention is in question here, is a minor child, of the age of sixteen years, leading an idle and dissolute life in said city and county, and not subject to any parental control whatever— his parents being unknown—caused the said Ah Peen to be brought before him for examination touching the said several…