Aranda v. Patterson

Plaintiffs in error, to whom we will refer as defendants, were found guilty of a misdemeanor in an action filed before a justice of the peace in El Paso county. Each defendant was sentenced to an indefinite term in the state reformatory at Buena Vista. Thereafter each filed a petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus challenging the jurisdiction of the justice to sentence to the reformatory. The petitions were consolidated for hearing and the district court held that the justice had such jurisdiction and remanded the petitioners to the custody of the warden of the reformatory. Defendants ask review…