Ex parte Green

Good Law
1890 Cal. LEXIS 1046·86 Cal. 427·25 P. 21
Supreme Court of CaliforniaNovember 22, 1890No. 20768California572 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Fox, J.

June 3, 1889, the prisoner was convicted, in the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco, of libel, and sentenced to imprisonment for the term of six months. Under this judgment he was confined in the county jail for four days, when he was admitted to hail, pending an appeal to the supreme court. Pending this appeal, and on August 22, 1889, he was convicted in the police court of conspiracy, and sentenced to be imprisoned in the count)'jail for one year, and to pay a fine of five hundred dollars, with the further order that in default of payment of the fine he he further imprisoned in said jail at the rate of one day for each one dollar of such fine. On this judgment he was imprisoned for one day, when he was admitted to bail, pending an appeal therefrom to the superior court. Afterwards the judgment in the first-mentioned case was affirmed in the supreme court, and on the twenty-second day of November, 1889, a bench-warrant was issued, upon which he was placed in jail on the judgment so affirmed, the term for which was six months, less four days already served. On the eighth day of March, 1890, the judgment of the police court was affirmed in the superior court,…

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