Day v. Skinner

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

This appeal is from an order of the county judge of Clark County denying bail to Ed Day, the appellant, in a habeas corpus proceeding.

A petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed by Johnnie Day on January 2, 1957, before the judge of the 41st Judicial District, composed of Clay, Jackson, and Leslie counties. The petition alleged that Ed Day, the appellant, was unlawfully confined in the Clark County jail by the appel-lee, Butler Skinner, as jailer; that an indictment for murder had been returned against appellant by the grand jury of Perry County at the November 1956…