Lynn v. Flanders

1. The plaintiff in error sued out a writ of habeas corpus against the sheriff of Laurens county, alleging that he was illegally restrained of his liberty, because the court which tried and convicted him of the crime of murder was not lawfully organized and constituted, and the indictment, trial, conviction, and imprisonment of petitioner were without authority of law, for the reason that the act creating the Dublin circuit (Acts 1911, p. 81), in which the defendant was tried and convicted of murder, was void, and consequently that the grand jury which indicted and the traverse jury which…