Ex parte Ryan
California Supreme Court
The petitioner was brought before Mr. Chief Justice Wallace, at chambers, on an application to admit him to bail in a sum less than the amount fixed by the committing magistrate—the Municipal Criminal Court of the .City and County of San Francisco having refused to entertain a similar application. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Chief Justice.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Wallace, C. J.:
The prisoner was arrested upon a charge of attempting to murder one Brown, a policeman. An examination had before the Police Court resulted in his being held to answer the charge, bail being fixed at fifteen thousand dollars. The Grand Jury subsequently found a true bill against Mm for an assault with an attempt to commit murder—a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Prison for a term of not less than one nor more than fourteen years—and upon this indictment, pending in the municipal Court, he is held to answer.
1. It appears by the petition for the writ…
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