Ex parte McDonald

GEIGER, District Judge.

This matter is here upon a petition, the writ, the return upon ancillary writs of certiorari to draft boards, and returns thereto in habeas corpus.

*100The writs of certiorari, of course, were issued in discharge merely of the function of bringing up certain records which, it was conceded, might throw some light upon the questions otherwise raised by the petition for the writ of habeas corpus, and do not discharge the office of an original proceeding to inquire into or to correct the doings of the tribunals to whom addressed. The pertinent facts in this case are that the…