Page v. Court

Application for a writ of mandate. The petitioner, having been convicted in the superior court of San Francisco of the crime'of embezzlement, was on April 15, 1898, sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for eight years, and on the 23d of April appealed from this judgment and an order denying him a new trial. April 25, 1898, his attorney presented to the judge, Hon. W. T. Wallace, one of the respondents herein, who had presided at the trial, a proposed bill of exceptions which he subsequently asked to have settled, and, the judge having refused to comply with his request, the…