Ex parte Edgar
California Supreme Court
WRIT of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court to the Sheriff of San Diego County to test the validity of the imprisonment of the petitioner under contempt proceedings had in the.Superior Court of San Diego County. E. S. Torrance, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
John C. Edgar was adjudged guilty of contempt by the superior court of San Diego county, and was punished therefor by a fine of two hundred dollars, with the alternative of imprisonment. This hearing is under his application for a writ of habeas corpus.
The facts giving rise to the alleged contempt are the following: One Joseph Japhet Ebanks was convicted of murder in the first degree before the superior court of San Diego county, and, upon appeal to this court, the judgment of conviction and the order denying him a new trial were affirmed. Thereafter Ebanks was brought before the superior…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hurtado v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- In Re Shibuya JugiroSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
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- Farnham v. Superior CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1961
- In re EbanksDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1897