Peebles v. Mangum

W. A. Peebles filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in his own behalf against C. W. Mangum, sheriff of Fulton county, alleging: that the applicant was restrained of his liberty and was incarcerated in the jail of Fulton county; that the cause of the restraint was a warrant issued by the city court of ’Wrights-ville in Johnson county, Georgia, which warrant charged that the applicant had committed a misdemeanor in Johnson county by cheating and swindling; that the restraint was illegal, because the applicant had never been in Johnson county, had committed no crime there, and the city…