In re Fil Ki

This is an application for a discharge of the petitioners under a writ of habeas corpus. The allegations of the petition tending to show the illegality of the alleged imprisonment are as follows:—

“ That the petitioners were held by the supreme court of this state at first to be legally imprisoned, but since such holding the sheriff of said county of Yuba has placed petitioners at hard labor daily; that petitioners are held only by virtue of a warrant or judgment in contempt proceedings, and by no other warrant or judgment; that they are and each of them is daily caused to labor at hard labor…