Ex parte Isbell

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner claims that he is unlawfully imprisoned, detained, confined and restrained of his liberty by the sheriff of Nye county. In his petition he shows that he was confined in ' the county jail of Nye county by virtue of a commitment issued on the tenth day of August, 1876, by a justice of the peace of said county, charging him with the crime of murder; that a grand jury of said county was thereafter regularly impaneled and sworn; that after examining the charge against petitioner, the grand jury, on the twenty-third day of August,…