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Ex parte Azhderian

Supreme Court of California
Feb 20, 1899
123 Cal. 512 (Cal. 1899)

Opinion

         HABEAS CORPUS for admission to bail of an appellant pending his appeal from a judgment of conviction of extortion in the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Carroll Cook, Judge.

         COUNSEL:

         Dorn & Dorn, for Petitioner.


         JUDGES: In Chambers. Garoutte, J.

         OPINION

          GAROUTTE, Judge

         Myron Azhderian having applied for bail pending his appeal to this court, and it appearing from the uncontradicted affidavits of the city and county physician and other medical gentlemen that he is undergoing a severe illness and will probably die within a short time if his imprisonment in the county jail continues, it is therefore ordered that he be admitted to bail in the sum of seventeen thousand dollars, pending the final determination of his appeal to this court from a conviction of felony, to wit, extortion.

         Said bond to be approved by John Haynes, commissioner of this court.


Summaries of

Ex parte Azhderian

Supreme Court of California
Feb 20, 1899
123 Cal. 512 (Cal. 1899)
Case details for

Ex parte Azhderian

Case Details

Full title:Ex parte MYRON AZHDERIAN, on Habeas Corpus

Court:Supreme Court of California

Date published: Feb 20, 1899

Citations

123 Cal. 512 (Cal. 1899)
56 P. 1130

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