Leonard v. Licker

Powell, J.; Voorhees and Shields, JJ., concurring.

The petition in error recites that the court of common pleas for this county, in a proceeding pending therein upon an application by the defendant in error, Barnett Licker, for a writ of habeas corpus on the plaintiff in error, J. A. Leonard, as superintendent of the Ohio state reformatory, inquiring into the cause of the imprisonment and detention by plaintiff in error of one Samuel Licker, rendered judgment and made final order discharging said Samuel Licker from the custody of the plaintiff in error, and remanding him to the custody of the…