People Ex Rel. Merrill v. Hazard

The petitioner, Helen Merrill, by this writ of habeas corpus seeks to be relieved from imprisonment under a final judgment of the circuit court of Champaign county, where she was found guilty of murder and sentenced to a term of fourteen years in the Illinois Reformatory for Women. The respondent, Helen H. Hazard, is superintendent of that institution.

An indictment charging the petitioner with murder was returned into the trial court bn September 25, 1933, which, was in all respects regular except that the foreman of the grand jury did not sign his name on the line below the printed…