Ex Parte Hand

Petitioner demands that he be discharged from the custody of the sheriff of Dewey county, Okla., by whom he is being held pursuant to a judgment of the district court of Dewey county, in which court he was convicted of the crime of conducting a gambling game and sentenced to one year’s confinement in the state reformatory at Granite, Okla., and to pay a fine of $500. The grounds stated in his petition are that a pretended preliminary hearing in said case was had before one G. W. Leighnor, who was at that time assuming to act as justice of the peace for the town of Seiling, Dewey county,…