Ex parte Ah Cha

Wallace, J.,

delivered tbe following opinion: [at- Chambers.]

These Chinamen bave been brought before me upon a writ of habeas corpus, to wbicb writ tbe Warden of tbe State Prison makes return tbat be detains them in custody by virtue of a judgment of tbe County Court of San Ber-nardino County, a copy of wbicb is annexed to tbe return, and by wbicb it appears tbat tbe prisoners, having been indicted of tbe crime of “an assault to commit murder,” were found guilty by tbe jury of “an assault to commit great bodily injury” only. Upon tbe verdict they were adjudged by tbe Court to be “punished by a…