Ex parte Shaw
Citations
- 61 Cal. 58
- 1882 Cal. LEXIS 539
Syllabus
<p>Commitment of Witness—Habeas Corpus.—The petitioner was committed to prison for not complying with an order of the Superior Court which required him to give an undertaking with sureties to appear and testify in a criminal action therein pending.</p> <p>Held: The Court was not authorized to exact from a witness, who was not examined before the committing magistrate, such an undertaking. -The power to require undertakings in such cases is confined to witnesses who are examined before the committing magistrate.</p>
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- ordering release of material witness where magistrate failed to require an undertaking for the witness’s appearance at trial
- ordering release of material witness where magistrate failed to require an undertaking for the witness’s appearance at trial
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