Ex Parte Spears

Dick Spears filed in this court a petition for writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he was unlawfully imprisoned and restrained of his liberty in the county jail of Coal county by Thea Bonner, sheriff of said county.

He alleged that he had been arrested by the sheriff of Coal county and that on February 8, 1947, the Hon. W. B. Thornsbrough, county judge of said county, sitting as an examining magistrate, and after a preliminary examination, held said petitioner without bail to answer to the district court of said county upon a charge of rape in the first degree.

It was further alleged that…