Ex parte Hollis

McKee, J.:

This is an application on habeas corpus to be discharged from imprisonment under a commitment issued upon a judgment, in proceedings for contempt, rendered by the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, against the petitioner.

Of the office and effect of a writ of habeas corpus, under our system of jurisprudence, there can not be, at this day, much question. It has been, indeed, contended that after *407judgment in a criminal case of a Court of competent jurisdiction a prisoner can not be discharged on habeas corpus, because the judgment is conclusive. Of course, where a…