In Re Lake

This is an application for relief under habeas corpus from a commitment of the petitioner on a judgment finding him guilty of contempt of court. The charges of contempt upon which the commitment was based arose out of the action of the petitioner in filing and presenting to the court in open session a certain 'affidavit charging the judge of the trial court with bias and prejudice in respect to the defendants in an action then pending before the court. That action was entitled Central Savings Bank of Oakland v. Fannie D. Lake, F. W. Lake, A. F. Lake and E. D. Lake, and was an action in…