Ex Parte Thomas

LAWSON, Justice.

Richard J. Thomas filed in this court an original petition for writ of habeas corpus wherein it is made to appear that he is presently serving a 25 year sentence in Kilby Prison under a conviction of carnal knowledge of a girl under 12 years of age.

The writ of habeas corpus is issued by this court only when necessary in the exercise of the “general superintendence and control of inferior jurisdictions” with which it is clothed by § 140 of the Constitution. The necessity which will authorize the issuance of the writ in this court does not exist unless the judge of some court…