Wentworth v. Alexander

Petition by the appellants, for a writ of habeas corpus, against the appellee, sheriff of Monroe county.

The petition states the following facts :

That the plaintiffs are restrained of their liberty by the defendant; that the cause of such restraint is, that, at the January term of the Monroe Circuit Court, 1879, the defendants were indicted for murder in the second degree, alleged to have been committed in killing James H. Rodgers ; that they were tried on said indictment, at said term, by a jury; that the jury returned a verdict upon said trial, in the following words :

“ We, the jury, find…