Ex Parte Matthews

LATTIMORE, Judge.

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus made direct to this court by means of which applicant seeks release from confinement in the State penitentiary. The basis on which the application rests is that the indictment upon which judgment of conviction was entered, was defective. It appears from the application that applicant was indicted for selling intoxicating liquor at a time anterior to the amendment to what is known as the Dean Law and at a time when the indictment should have negatived the exception originally contained in the enacting clause of that law. It is…