In Re Nakanishi

Petitioner by this proceeding seeks to secure his discharge from the custody of the chief of police of the city of Los Angeles. In his petition for the writ issued herein he set out as ground therefor that no warrant or commitment of any kind had been issued to the chief of police directing his imprisonment, and that he was not held on any warrant of arrest, nor upon suspicion of having committed any public offense. The chief of police made return to the writ, showing that on the nineteenth day of June, 1912, in the police court of the city of Los Angeles, petitioner was adjudged guilty of a…