Jewett v. Siegmund

Kenison, G. J.

Appeal from the denial of plaintiff’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus by the Grafton County Superior Court, Flynn, J. The plaintiff was charged with murder in the first degree of one John F. Balch and was bound over to the Grafton County Grand Jury after a hearing on probable cause in the Hanover District Court. Plaintiff’s petition for habeas corpus in the Superior Court alleged that the Hanover District Court was without jurisdiction because the evidence was insufficient for a determination that there was probable cause that murder in the first degree had been committed…