Ex parte State, in re Newton

— This proceeding is an application by the State on the relation of the solicitor of Montgomery county, for a certiorari, mandamus-, or other remedial writ, requiring the judge of the City Court of Birmingham to certify, and re'turn for revision to this court, the proceedings under a writ of habeas corpus, applied for and obtained by Nancy E. H. Newton, on the hearing of which she was released and discharged from the performance of hard labor, to which she had been sentenced by the City Court of Montgomery. The judge having returned the proceedings in his answer to the rule nisi, the c;ase…