Manor v. Donahoo
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition for habeas corpus. Before Judge Reece. City court of Floyd county. ' December 9, 1902. Manor was imprisoned in the county jail, under a criminal warrant, and, in the fourth week of his imprisonment and after a commitment had been issued against him by the justice of the peace who had issued the warrant, he sued out a writ of habeas corpus, alleging in his petition that he had demanded and had been refused a hearing on the charge made in the warrant, and that further…
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Petition for habeas corpus. Before Judge Reece. City court of Floyd county. ' December 9, 1902. Manor was imprisoned in the county jail, under a criminal warrant, and, in the fourth week of his imprisonment and after a commitment had been issued against him by the justice of the peace who had issued the warrant, he sued out a writ of habeas corpus, alleging in his petition that he had demanded and had been refused a hearing on the charge made in the warrant, and that further restraint of his liberty would be illegal. The answer set up that a hearing had been waived. There was evidence that at…
1Opinion of the CourtCandler, J.
It appearing that the plaintiff was detained by virtue of a criminal warrant which was prima facie legal, and that be was repeatedly given an opportunity to have a commitment trial before the magistrate who issued the warrant, which-he'expressly declined ; and the point made upon the legality of the detention going merely to the informality of the commitment under which the plaintiff was held, the court below did not err in denying the writ of habeas corpus. Penal Code, § 926.
Judgment affirmed.
By five Justices. Lipscomb & Willingham,, for plaintiff. George A. IT. Harris, for defendant.
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