Ex parte Thomas

delivered tlie opinion of tlie court.

José de Thomas made an application to this court for a writ of habeas corpus. The writ was accordingly issued and made returnable to the District Court of Ponce. The application sets out substantially that the petitioner was confined in the district jail of Ponce under the custody of Adolfo Les-*351pier, who held the prisoner in response to a sentence of seven years in the penitentiary imposed by the District Court of Humacao; that the said José de Thomas was accused before said court as the principal in the crime of murder in the first degree upon the person…