In re Atcherley

*648OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PERRY, J.

This is an appeal by Dr. John Atcherley from an order of a circuit judge dissolving a writ of certiorari which had been issued to the chairman of the commissioners of insanity commanding him to send to the circuit judge a certified copy of the proceedings had before the commissioners in the matter of the appeal of the present petitioner to the end that their validity might be ascertained.

The petitioner was taken into custody on a warrant issued by the district magistrate of Honolulu and based upon an affidavit sworn to by the sheriff of the city and county of…