Metzler

The petitioners were, on June 2, 1921, by the superior court of Humboldt County, adjudged guilty of contempt of eonrt and each sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars, with the alternative of imprisonment in the county jail of said county, “until such fine be paid, at the rate of one day’s imprisonment for every two dollars of said fine.” They refused to pay the fines so imposed and were committed to the county jail, where they remained until the fourth day of June, 1921, at which time, upon the issuance by this court, upon their petition, of a writ of habeas corpus looking to their release from what they alleged to be the illegal restraint of their persons, they were set at liberty, having given the bail to which they were ordered to be admitted by this court upon the issuance of said writ.

Subsequently to the issuance of said writ of habeas corpus and prior to the hearing thereof, the petitioners filed in this court a petition praying for a writ of certiorari for the review of the proceedings culminating in the judgment of contempt against petitioners. Both proceedings -i nding before us, therefore, involve precisely the same judgment of contempt, and the office of each…