Ex parte Graham

Appellant brings up for review, by writ of certiorari, the record in proceedings before the chancellor where bail was sought. The prayer of the petition below was denied on the face of the record without the introduction of testimony. So we must test the correctness of the chancellor’s ruling by the facts appearing upon the face of the record.

Petitioner was arrested in Nevada County on. a charge of felony, and was carried before a justice of the peace, who held an examining trial on August. 19, 1921, and committed petitioner to await the action of the grand jury at the next regular term of…