Foreman v. Hunter
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jasper District Oourt. The plaintiff filed a petition praying for his discharge, upon a writ of habeas corpus, from the Jasper county jail. The writ of habeas corpus was duly issued and upon the hearing the court refused to discharge the petitioner. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
The evidence upon which the case was heard is not before us.
The petition in substance alleges that the imprisonment and restraint of the plaintiff are by virtue of a mittimus issued by one J. L. Johnson, a justice of the peace in and for Jasper county, upon a judgment of conviction upon seventeen counts in an information charging the petitioner with the sale of intoxicating liquors; that the judgments entered upon every count of the information are void, and, the imprisonment is illegal, for the following, among other reasons:
Fi/rst. Two of the jury which tried the cause were not citizens of…
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