State ex rel. Cropper v. Murdock

On the 11th day of July, 1881, on a plea of guilty to a charge of grand larceny, entered in the Marion Criminal Circuit Court, appellant, Cropper, was sentenced to five years imprisonment in the State’s prison. After the. judgment and sentence, he was conveyed to the prison at Michigan City by the sheriff of the county, and placed in said prison, under the charge and custody of appellee Murdock, who was, and has continued to be, the warden of that prison. To relieve himself from this imprisonment, appellant commenced this habeas corpus proceeding in the LaPorte Circuit Court, in September,…