Ex parte Keeney

Petitioner, who is health officer of the city and county of San Francisco, is arrested and held under a warrant issued out of the police court of said city and county, upon a complaint charging him with misdemeanor, for that he, “as such health officer, did grant and issue a permit to deposit the body of said Ah Tin in the city cemetery, in said city and county of San Francisco, and to inter said body in said city and county, ■without requiring, receiving or obtaining, or filing, and without the issuance of the certificate of the death of said Ah Tin, signed or issued by an attending…