Murphy v. Daly

Appellant applied to the court below for a writ of habeas corpus, and for an order discharging him from the Indiana State Prison. The writ was issued and appellee’s motion to quash the same was sustained. Appellant refused to plead further and judgment followed, remanding appellant to the custody of appellee. From this judgment, appellant perfected an appeal and assigned as error the ruling of the court quashing the writ.

The record in this case is an exceptional one, in that it appears from the petition that on April 30, 1924 appellant was tried in the Parke Circuit Court, found guilty of…