In Re Garbarini

This is a proceeding on hateas corpus. Petitioner was arrested and convicted upon a complaint filed in a justice court which designated the offense as “crime of killing a doe, a misdemeanor”, it being therein charged that defendant at a certain time and place within the jurisdiction of the court “did wilfully and unlawfully kill a doe”.

The defendant was by the court tried and found guilty and a judgment was rendered finding the defendant “guilty as charged”.

Petitioner now urges that the complaint as filed did not state a public offense and that the judgment does not state any offense of which…