In re Spradlend

The petitioner asks to be discharged from the custody of *548the jailor of the county of St. Louis, on the ground that, being imprisoned to answer an indictment in the Circuit Court of Iron county on a charge of murder, be lias not been brought to trial before the end of the second term after the November term of said court in 1864, and within the time prescribed by law, and that such delay was not upon his application. The return of the jailor shows that the prisoner is held in his custody and was received into his custody from the sheriff of Iron county, upon the order of the Circuit Court of…