Ex Parte Heacock

The petition shows that petitioner is held by the sheriff of Mendocino county by virtue of “a commitment and an order and warrant of commitment made by a justice of the peace of Ten Mile River Township in said county purporting upon its face to hold this petitioner to answer upon the charge of murder. ” It is averred that petitioner “has been committed on said criminal charge without reasonable or probable cause . . . which will more fully appear from a complete transcript of the evidence and the testimony taken at the examination before said justice of the peace as a committing magistrate,…