Wreden v. Superior Court of Stanislaus County

Where a motion is made in a Superior Court to vacate and set aside an information, upon the ground that the depositions and evidence transmitted to the Court by the committing magistrate, and on which the information was filed, showed that the defendant had committed a higher offense than the crime of manslaughter, for which he had been held to answer, a writ of prohibition will not be granted to prevent the Court, on the hearing of the motion, from looking into and considering the depositions and evidence transmitted to it and on file among the papers of the case. For as the Court has…