Dinkla v. Miles

Appellant petitioned the Madison Circuit Court for a writ of habeas corpus, stating, in substance, that he is unlawfulling restrained of his liberty by one A. F. Miles as superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory; that the cause of his imprisonment and restraint, as he has reason to believe, is by virtue of a purported “void warrant of committment issued” by the Hendricks Circuit Court upon a verdict of a jury and judgment of the court that he was guilty of bank robbery; that the term of his imprisonment, twelve years, has not expired; that the reason for his belief of unlawful restraint is…