Coleman v. Grimes

On March 18, 1922, Mrs. Minnie Grimes presented to the judge of the superior court of Emanuel County her petition for habeas corpus, wherein she alleged, that J. H. Wyatt, her father, whose release from custody she sought, was held in jail by Otis Coleman, sheriff of the count)^ under and by virtue of a judgment of the judge of the city court of Swainsboro, remanding him to jail under a bail-trover proceeding; and that the judgment under which he .was being held showed upon its face that, as a matter of law, it was in effect an order discharging Wyatt from jail under his application for…