Ex parte Hubbard

— The return to the writ of habeas corpus shows, as the cause of the relator’s detention and imprisonment, a judgment of the mayor’s court of the city of Montgomery, convicting him of violating an ordinance of the city council, punishing the knowingly bringing stolen property into the city, sentencing him to pay a fine of one hundred dollars, and, in default of payment, to one hundred days of hard labor for the city. A writ of habeas corpus, issued by any court or judge, in the exercise of original jurisdiction, was not at common law, and is not under our statutes, a revisory remedy — it is…