Ex Parte Centell

Petitioner, Lee Centell, filed in this court on August 29, 1927, a petition wherein he avers that he is illegally restrained of his liberty by Frank Fox, sheriff of Pottawatomie county; that his unlawful imprisonment consists in this, to wit: That a warrant of commitment was illegally issued by J. J. Dutton, justice of the peace, Tecumseh township, said county, upon a preliminary examination had upon a complaint wherein petitioner, Lee Centell, D. L. Ellard, and Delmar Hull were charged with the crime of murder, alleged to have been committed by stabbing and cutting one Ellis Baker, in said…