Ex Parte Lyford

HONORABLE CHARLES W. POMEROY, District Judge,

sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE GALEN, absent on account of illness, delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

Tbis is an application for a writ of babeas corpus on bebalf of Nat C. Lyford, an inmate of tbe state prison, committed by virtue of a judgment of conviction of tbe crime of grand larceny by tbe district court of Missoula county. The judgment followed a verdict of guilty.

Tbe petition sets forth tbe proceedings in tbe district court and also tbe process by which tbe petitioner is held. Tbe case has been submitted on tbe petition.

Tbe petitioner…