Ex Parte Riddle

On the 24th day of September, 1923, petitioner Joe Riddle filed a verified petition in this court for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he was unlawfully restrained of his liberty and Imprisoned in the county jail of Choctaw county by D. M. McClanahan, sheriff of said county; that the cause of said restraint is that the said Joe Riddle is being held to testify as a witness in a misdemeanor case pending in the county court of said county against one Bill Johnson, charged with the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor, and there has never been any order of the county judge to hold this…