Ex parte Brown
California Supreme Court
Application to the Supreme Court for a discharge from imprisonment upon a writ of habeas corpus. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBeatty, C. J.
The petitioner is registrar of voters of the city and county of San Francisco. His duties as such are in all material respects the same as those imposed by law upon county clerks in the other counties of the state. (Act of March 18, 1878; Stats. 1878, p. 299, sec. 4; Pol. Code, new sec. 1216, added by act of March 20, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 165, sec. 32.) It appears from his petition and the return to the writ issued herein that the Hon. C. W. Slack, one of the judges of the superior court of San Francisco, acting in the capacity of a committing magistrate, caused the arrest of one Naphtaly…
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