Ex parte Grubbs
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the judgment of HoN. FraNK E. LarkiN, circuit judge, denying relief on habeas corpus. The opining of the supreme court fully states the facts. The affidavits upon which the pretended convictions are based are all crude and utterly insufficient to support the pretended convictions, hence the appellant should have been discharged. Grubbs’ remedy was an appeal to the circuit court.
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
Joseph Grubbs shows in his petition for a writ of habeas corpus that he has been duly committed to the custody of the convict contractor of Washington county by the sheriff of said county under convictions for crime, before a justice of the peace of said county, of four several and distinct misdemeanors. The petitioner sets out in his complaint the substance of several affidavits of said several misdemeanors upon which he was convicted, and he points out errors and defects in said affidavits which he claims avoid the several convictions. It must be admitted that three of the affidavits upon…
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