Skipper v. Schumacher

Upon the petition of C. A. Skipper alleging that for various reasons he was unlawfully restrained of his liberty by the respondent sheriff of Highlands County, this court issued a writ of habeas corpus directed to the respondent commanding him to have the petitioner before this court together with the cause of detention. The respondent’s return to the writ shows that he was and is holding the petitioner in custody upon the authority of two commitments issued out of the Circuit Court for High lands County, one issued November 6, 1935, and the other November 20, 1935, which commitments were…