Riley v. Cloud

D. L. Riley, the appellant, sued out a writ of habeas corpus returnable before Hon. W. H. Potter, circuit judge of the Seventh district, against M. M. Cloud, sheriff of Madison county, praying for his release from the custody of said sheriff. The petition for habeas corpus was heard and the prayer of the petition was denied, and the defendant, the appellant here, was ordered committed to the state penitentiary under a former sentence of the circuit court of Madison county.

The facts necessary to state are these: D, L. Riley on July 1, 1925, was sentenced by a justice of the peace in Madison…