In Re Gavin

THE COURT.

The petitioner, by a judge of the superior court of' the city and county of San Francisco, was committed to the state hospital for the insane at Napa, state of California, by an order of commitment, dated the twenty-seventh day of October, 1919, and has applied to this court by way of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, to be released from restraint under said commitment and ordered discharged.

The commitment, among other things, recites: That the court, being satisfied from the testimony of the witnesses and of the proof of the matter set forth in the certificate, that said…