In re Jilz

On January 22, 1877, William W. Jilz filed in this court-a petition stating that, on August 12, 1876, he was tried and. convicted in the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction on. a charge of criminal abortion, and sentenced by the judge-of the court to imprisonment in the jail of St. Louis County for the term of one year, and to pay a fine of $500, and was: thereupon committed to jail, and confined therein until *244August 22, 1876, on which day, the judge of the Criminal Court being then absent from the county, he applied to the Hon. James Lindley, one of the judges of the Circuit Court of St.…