Ex parte Stout

.Beck, J.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus presented by James D. Stout, who states that Charles W. Wright, pretending to act as judge of the criminal court of Arapahoe county, on the 18th day of March, 1881, caused the petitioner to be brought before him, and tried before a jury, upon an indictment charging the petitioner with the crime of petit larceny. That the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and that afterwards, on the 26th day of March, said judge sentenced the petitioner upon said verdict, to thirty days’ imprisonment in the county jail of Arapahoe county.

The petition…