Ex Parte Stroud

At the September, 1924 term of the' Franklin Circuit Court for the Ozark District there was pending against petitioner, Walter Stroud, three indictments, one charging him as an accessory before the fact to the -crime of arson, another with the -crime of forgery, and the third with the crime of embezzlement, committed while petitioner was assistant cashier of the Bank of Ratcliff. There was also pending at the same time, in the same court, five indictments against W. D. Stroud, a brother of petitioner, and there were three indictments against another brother, making eleven indictments in all,…