Ex parte Toland

Citations

• 54 Cal. 344

Syllabus

<p>Jurisdiction — Superior Court — Constitutional Law.— An appeal was pending in tlie County Court of San Francisco on the 1st day of January, 1880, from a judgment of conviction in the City Criminal Court; and the judgment was afterward affirmed by the Superior Court, and the defendant arrested upon a bench-warrant from that Court. Upon an application for release upon a writ of habeas corpus: Held, that, under § 3 of art. 22 of the Constitution, the Court had the power to issue the writ.</p>