Matter of Zany

It appears from the petition that petitioner, Charles Zany, is imprisoned by the authority of a warrant of arrest issued on July 11, 1912, upon a complaint filed that day in the justice's court of Modesto township, county of Stanislaus. It is alleged in the petition that said complaint is invalid, illegal, and void in that it fails to charge a public offense and conferred no authority on the said justice of the peace to issue said warrant; "that said complaint is founded upon and charges a violation of the terms and provisions of an ordinance enacted by the people of the county of Stanislaus,…