Heard v. Clark

The appellant was in the custody of the sheriff under a warrant issued on an indictment charging him with a felony. He sued out a writ of habeas corpus by which he sought to be discharged from custody. This, the court below declined to do, but allowed bail.

Section 1, chapter 147, Laws of 1924, section 460, Hemingway’s 3927 Code, provides that the circuit court of Sunflower county shall be convened “on the second Monday of September [for] twenty-four days, the first twelve days for civil business, when a grand jury shall be convened, and the last twelve days for criminal business.” The…