Ex parte Cameron
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Criminal Court of Greene. “ ■ This was an application to this court by Dave Cameron for tbe writ of habeas corpus, which had been refused by the Hon. H. M. Judge, judge of the Criminal Court of Greene county.
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Appeal from Criminal Court of Greene. “ ■ This was an application to this court by Dave Cameron for tbe writ of habeas corpus, which had been refused by the Hon. H. M. Judge, judge of the Criminal Court of Greene county. The opinion states the material facts. 1. Habeas corpus is the proper remedy, whenever a party is illegally restrained of his liberty. — Ex parte Greios, 78 Ala. 157; Smith v. State, 76 lb. 69 ; State v. Metcalf, 75 lb. 42 ; Kirby v. State, 62 Ib< 51; Ex parte McKivett, 55 lb. 236. 2. The petitioner has become entitled to his discharge from his imprisonment, which was…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
— The authority to award a writ of habeas corpus having been conferred on this court, only when “necessary to give to it a general superintendence and control of inferior jurisdictions,” our inquiry, on the present application, is restricted to the question, whether the petitioner, on the case as made before the judge of the Criminal Court, is entitled to the relief he seeks?
The petitioner was convicted of grand larceny at the spring term, 1885, of the Circuit Court, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for three years and six months. Since the rendition of the judgment, he…
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