State Ex Rel. Neilson v. Harwood

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

Neilson, an inmate of tbe state prison, filed a petition for habeas corpus herein seeking bis discharge from confinement. Tbe warden of tbe penitentiary answered and after a bearing tbe criminal court ordered tbe release of tbe prisoner and tbe warden appealed to this Court.

Pursuant to tbe order of tbe criminal judge Neilson was released and placed in a hospital or nursing borne at Nashville, be being in a low state of health. Tbe warden filed a petition seeking to supersede tbe order of discharge and this Court granted a stay order leaving Neilson in the…