Ex Parte Richards

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was taken in charge by Cranford at Abbott on a telephone communication from Hillsboro, and, while so in charge of said Cranford, it is claimed, offered him $50 to permit hm to escape. The writ of habeas corpus was resorted to to obtain his discharge, on the ground that the affidavit of Cranford does not show a violation of the law. When the case came on for trial, Cranford testified that he had received a telephone message from the sheriff of Hill County to look for a man of a particular description, who was wanted upon a charge of misdemeanor, and,…