MR. JUSTICE McKENNA, after making the foregoing statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court.
By the constitution of the State of California no person can be held for a crime unless on information, after examination and committment by a magistrate, or an indictment by a grand jury. Sec. 8, Constitution of 1879. By sections 204 to 211, inclusive, of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State, (prior to the amendments hereinafter stated,) it was made the duty...
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