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Show JUDGES BROWN AND WELLS ESTABLISH A PRECEDENT. Oakland, June 3. Holding that it-was it-was necessary for the district attorney attor-ney to Bhow who was to have been defrauded, de-frauded, Judges Brown and Wells, sitting sit-ting en banc in the criminal, department depart-ment of the superior court, established estab-lished today a precedent for California courts In the handling of wlro tapping cases. They ordered the discharge from custody of J. H. Robinson, upon application of his attorneys for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that I attempt to defraud had not been j shown, in that the identity of prospective pros-pective victiruB had not been established. estab-lished. Robinson and two other men wero accused of having tapped telephone tele-phone wires loading into Ocean View poolroom. |