Ex parte Morrison

25 P. 1064, 88 Cal. 112, 1891 Cal. LEXIS 657

• Court: California Supreme Court
• Decided: February 24, 1891
• Docket: No. 20802
• Status: Published

Opinion

De Haven, J.

This is a proceeding upon habeas corpus. It appears from the return to the writ that F. P. Morrison, the person in whose behalf the writ was issued, is detained by the superintendent of the house of correction of the city and county of San Francisco under and by virtue of a judgment of the police court of said city and county convicting the said Morrison of the crime of vagrancy, and adjudging that he be imprisoned therefor in said house of correction for the period of ninety days. The judgment was rendered February 5, 1891. The judgment appears to be regular on its face, and it does not appear therefrom under which clause of section 647 of the Penal Code said Morrison was convicted. It was argued that the first clause of this section is unconstitutional; but we cannot assume, for the purpose of passing on this question, or of discharging the prisoner, that this is the particular clause under which the conviction was had. The complaint upon which the judgment was rendered is not in this record. We cannot say, from the record before us, that the judgment is void. The said Morrison is remanded, and the writ discharged.

Beatty, C. J., McFarland, J., Garoutte, J., Paterson, J., Harrison, J., and Sharpstein, J., concurred.