In Re Bridwell

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner was tried in the justice’s court of Santa Ana township, county of Orange, upon a complaint charging him with failure to support his minor children, a misdemeanor; the complaint charging that this offense was committed within the county of Orange, state of California. He was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for the term of one year. It fully appears that the petitioner and his said minor children were not residents of Santa Ana township, but that they were, and for more than five years had been,…