Ex Parte Caveness

Petitioner alleges that he is unlawfully imprisoned at Tecumseh, in Pottawatomie county; that petitioner has been tried and convicted of the crime of violating the prohibition law in six cases; that his bail is fixed at the excessive and unreasonable amount of $250 in each ease, making the total bail in the sum of $1,500. It is further averred that petitioner’s imprisonment is illegal in this: That the verdict and judgment in each of said cases is illegal and unauthorized by law, because the sales which it is claimed were made by petitioner of intoxicating liquors, and upon which he was…