Ex Parte Hastings

Petitioner, Raymond Hastings, filed in this court on July 26, 1940, his petition for writ of habeas corpus, wherein he alleged that he was. unlawfully imprisoned and restrained of Ms liberty by George Goff, sheriff of Oklahoma county, and in which he prayed for a writ of habeas corpus, to be directed to said sheriff; that the cause of said restraint is a commitment issued by Guy Bigham, justice of the peace for Edmond city district, Oklahoma county, and alleges that the said justice of the peace was without jurisdiction to issue commitment for the following reasons:

That the complaint upon…