Faughnan v. Ross

Jenkins, Presiding Justice.

1. In this State, the writ of habeas corpus will lie, not only by “any person restrained of his liberty” or by any person who is “interested” in such restraint even '“from humanity alone” (Broomhead v. Chisolm, 47 Ga. 390 (6), 394), but also the writ will lie in .behalf of “any person alleging that another . . is kept illegally from the custody of the applicant.” Code, 60-101. Our statute thus provides for two different kinds of habeas corpus: one by a person restrained or by some one in his behalf, such as was “known to the common law as the habeas corpus ad…