State Ex Rel. Redwine v. Selman

delivered tlie opinion of tlie Court.

The writ of habeas corpus was issued upon relation of Redwine charging' that he was unlawfully restrained of his liberty by the sheriff of Hamilton County. The trial judge, upon hearing', dismissed the petition and remanded the prisoner to custody.

It is set forth in the petition that in 3926 relator fled from a situation of peonage in the State of Georgia and came to Chattanooga. The manager of the plantation from which he came had him arrested in this State upon a charge of going armed in Georgia, and relator relying npon his innocence voluntarily…