In re McMicken for a Writ of Habeas Corpus

*407The opinion of- the court was delivered by

Horton, C. J.:

The petitioner was informed against in Trego county, on May 3, 1887, for the crime of murder in the first degree in killing E. T. Robbins, in the county of Wallace, an unorganized- municipal township, attached to Trego county for judicial purposes. At the May term of the court for 1887, the trial of the case was continued, upon application of the petitioner, until the next term of the court. At the September term of the court for 1887 the cause was continued to the next term, “because, within the knowledge of the court, a question was…