Ex parte Clifford

Clifford sued out a writ of habeas corpus on his petition, averring that he is restrained of his liberty in the northern state prison, by the warden thereof; that he was committed for the- term of three years by a judgment of the Montgomery Circuit Court, rendered on the 13th of September, 1862; that the period has long since elapsed; that it is charged that he escaped before the expiration of *107tlie term, and that he is now detained solely on that ground; that he is held solely on the alleged knowledge of the escape by the officers of the prison; that two sessions of the grand jury of the…