In Re Jacobs

No good cause for the issuance of a writ appears. The question of insufficiency of evidence to warrant conviction cannot be considered on habeas corpus. Subdivision 7 of section1487 of the Penal Code, authorizing a discharge on habeascorpus "where a party has been committed on a criminal charge without reasonable or probable cause," is applicable only where a person has been committed for trial by a magistrate without reasonable or probable cause. The complaint in the police court sufficiently stated facts constituting the offense of petit larceny (Pen. Code, secs. 484 and 488). The words "by…