People ex rel. Johnson v. Ruthazer

This habeas corpus proceeding involves the legality of the detention of the relator as a fugitive from justice of the State of Georgia.

Admittedly, the relator, upon his plea of guilty to an indictment charging burglary was sentenced to a Georgia penitentiary and thereafter escaped therefrom. He seeks his discharge principally upon the grounds: (1) that the sentence imposed by the Georgia court was excessive, and (2) that, in execution of the sentence imposed, he was detained in solitary confinement. In other words, the relator contends that the sentence imposed and his imprisonment thereunder…