Ex parte McAllister

The petitioner, C. B. McAllister, on June 8, 1951, filed herein bis petition for writ of habeas corpus, alleging that be was unlawfully restrained of bis liberty and unlawfully imprisoned in the Tulsa county jail at Tulsa, Oklahoma, by George Blaine, sheriff of Tulsa county. It is alleged that the restraint is by reason of a commitment issued by Stanley C. Edmister, judge of the common pleas court of Tulsa county, Division 3, upon a charge of embezzlement.

Petitioner sets out that on April 5, 1951, be was arrested, based on a preliminary information charging him with the crime of embezzlement;…