Shehany v. Lowry

John Shehany was tried, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for not less than three years and not more than five years, under an indictment charging him with the offense of “robbery, for that said accused . . with force and arms did wrongfully, fraudulently, and violently, by force and intimidation, take from the person of R. C. Parker, with intent to ■steal same, forty dollars in money, the property of said Parker, contrary to the laws of said State,” etc. Thereafter Shehany filed a petition for habeas corpus, alleging that he was being detained by Lowry, sheriff, under…