In re McDonald

The petitioner, W. G. McDonald, stands indicted by the grand jury of Caldwell county as principal in the second degree for the murder of one John Gray.

The indictment states that the offence was committed in the county of Ray, but within five hundred yards of the county line separating the counties of Caldwell and Ray. Under this indictment petitioner was arrested and is confined in the jail of Caldwell county in the custody of the sheriff, the respondent herein. The prisoner petitions this court for the writ of habeas corpus, asking to be discharged from said imprisonment and custody on the…