In Re Haines

The petitioner claims that he is being unlawfully restrained of his personal liberty by the sheriff of Shasta County, and has petitioned this court for his enlargement through the writ of habeas corpus. The ground upon which he seeks release from his alleged unlawful imprison ment is that there is no such crime known to our law as that for which he is so being held.

It appears from the petition that the prisoner, at the time of the commission of the crime for which the sheriff is now holding him, was serving a sentence in the county jail of Shasta County for the crime of malicious mischief, a…