Davis v. O'Grady

This is an appeal from a final order made in the district court for Lancaster county, upon a petition for a writ of habeas corpus presented thereto by Otha Davis, against Joseph O’Grady, warden of the Nebraska state penitentiary. Such order denied the issuance of the writ against the defendant, or any relief as in said petition prayed, for the reason “that the petition does not state a cause of action in favor of the petitioner or relator.”

Included in relator’s petition is a copy of an information filed against him in the district court for Howard county, Nebraska, by the duly elected,…