Collins

This is an application addressed to me, as one of the associate judges of the supreme court, for an order, directed to the sheriff of the city and county of San *274 Francisco, to permit petitioner, who is in his custody pending appeal from a judgment of conviction for perjury, to visit, in charge of a deputy sheriff, the office of the county clerk of said city for the purpose of examining certain papers and records therein.

The application sets forth that the petitioner was convicted and sentenced, and that he has appealed from the judgment to the district court of appeals for the first appellate district, where such appeal is now pending; that a bill of exceptions on said appeal was presented, settled, certified, and filed; that in settling the same the judge of the superior court before which he was tried refused to allow a large number of important and substantial exceptions to be incorporated therein in accordance with the facts; that petitioner desires to apply to the supreme court of this state, under section 1174 of the Penal Code, to prove said exceptions; that the original bill is on file in the county clerk’s office, and that to prepare his petition to the supreme…