Deaver v. State

Upon a petition addressed to the probate judge of Blount county alleging that petitioner was illegally restrained of his liberty by George McPherson, sheriff of said county, a writ was issued by said judge directed to the sheriff aforesaid, commanding him to have the body of petitioner before him at a fixed time, together with the cause of his detention, etc. The Sheriff responded to the writ by producing the petitioner as commanded, and answered that he was holding the petitioner on a charge of murder in the first degree, under a mittimus or warrant issued by J. C. Nation, judge of probate,…