Ex Parte Wood

Application made by Lawrence D. Wood on behalf of his daughter Julia A. Wood for a writ of habeas corpus, to be directed to the superintendent of the Whittier state school.

On March 16, 1907, a complaint was filed in the superior court of Los Angeles county by one A. C. Dodd, wherein it was alleged that Julia A. Wood, a female, was a minor under the age of eighteen years; that she was guilty of incorrigible conduct; and praying that she be committed to the Whittier state school. At the hearing, had on the day of filing the complaint, it was by the court adjudged that said Julia A. Wood was an incorrigible under subdivision 1 of section 20 of an act of the legislature of California entitled, “An Act to establish a State Reform School for juvenile offenders, and to make an appropriation therefor,” approved March 11, 1889, and the acts amendatory thereof, and that she was a fit subject for commitment to said school; and thereupon the court, on said sixteenth day of March, 1907, made an order committing her to said Whittier state school until she arrived at the age of twenty-one years.

Among other grounds urged in support of the issuance of the writ, it is contended that said Julia…