Ex Parte Briggs

The action is in habeas corpus praying for the discharge of petitioner from the workhouse of the city of Dayton, Ohio, to which he was committed from the Municipal Court of Dayton.

The petition recites that petitioner was unlawfully imprisoned and restrained by virtue of a “certain pretended instrument of writing of which a true copy is hereto attached, marked ‘A,’ ” etc. No such exhibit is attached to the petition but upon the averments of the answers and statements of defendant in his brief, which are binding upon him, it appears that petitioner was brought to trial upon a complaint charging…