Johnson v. State

This is an application for a writ of ha-beas corpus on the part of Oster Johnson confined in the county jail of Choctaw county by Cap Duncan, sheriff, under commitment from the district court of said county issued upon a judgment and sentence rendered by said court in accordance with the verdict of the jury finding the defendant guilty of forgery in the second degree, and fixing his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years.

It is alleged “that said restraint is illegal because the information on which this prosecution is based does not state facts sufficient to…