In Re Powell

This is an appeal from an order denying and dismissing a petition for writ of habeas corpus.

Fred Powell and Ridge Bentley, appellants herein, were each charged by complaint, filed before a justice of the peace, with the crime of supplying liquor to a minor. Upon a trial before the justice, they entered pleas of guilty and were convicted. Each was sentenced to pay a fine and ordered committed to the county jail until the same was paid.

Appellants then filed in the superior court a petition for writ of habeas corpus, seeking release from imprisonment on the grounds that the justice of the peace…