Ex Parte White

By original action, Eugene T. White prays a writ of habeas corpus, and discharge from the custody of John T. Newell, warden of the state penitentiary. He alleges that in May, 1922, he was indicted in the district court of Murray county for an alleged violation of the state banking law, and that in May, 1923, he was tried, and a verdict of guilty returned, the punishment being left to the court (Hon. W. L. Eagleton presiding, now deceased) ; that he is confined in the penitentiary under a pretended judgment, alleged to have been entered by the said court, but that the same is void and no…