Shoddy v. Howard

Petition by Henry Snoddy, to the Hon. George A. Bieknell, Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, against Andrew J. Howard, warden of the State’s prison south, praying for the writ of habeas corpus. The writ was granted, and the warden made return thereto, that he held said Snoddy by -virtue of a judgment of the Morgan Circuit Court, convicting him of the crime of unlawfully, feloniously, and knowingly retaining possession of certain dies and plates made use of in counterfeiting certain silver coin then current in the State of Indiana, of the denomination of five cents, commonly called…