State ex rel. Shattuck v. French

This case is here upon the return to an álternative writ of certiorari to review a threatened order of the superior court of Kitsap county, discharging a prisoner upon the sheriff’s return to a writ of habeas corpus issued from that court. The facts are not disputed.

On August 18, 1914, one James Stewart was arrested upon a warrant founded upon an information charging him with the crime of lewdness, under the provisions of the statute defining. lewdness, and declaring it a gross misdemeanor. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2458 (P. C. 135 § 411). He was confined in the county jail for more than sixty…