State ex rel. Nicholson v. Bush

Me. Evans, Special Judge,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a habeas corpus case, instituted in the criminal court of Hamilton county by relator, Bass Nicholson, against N. P. Bush, sheriff of that county, for the purpose of obtaining his liberty or procuring his release from the custody of defendant. On the trial in the criminal court relator’s petition was dismissed, and an appeal was taken to the court of civil appeals, where the judgment of the lower court was reversed and the prayer of the petition granted. Thereupon the case was brought to this court by the writ of certiorari.

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