Ex parte Arras

This is an application for the discharge of the prisoner, under a writ of habeas corpus, from the state prison at San Quentin. The petition alleges that the petitioner “is detained, confined, restrained, and imprisoned by virtue of a judgment and commitment, which judgment and commitment attempt to imprison him for two years in said prison, and to impose a large fine, and order his further imprisonment in said prison in case he do not pay said fine for a long period of time, to wit, for one day for each dollar of said fine not paid; that the two years’ imprisonment ordered by said judgment…