Ex Parte Murphy

The petitioner, Wesley D. Murphy, filed his petition for writ of habeas corpus in this court on July 21, 1937, alleging that he was unlawfully imprisoned and restrained by the sheriff of Garfield county, and that such illegal restraint and imprisonment is in default of the payment of costs in a certain criminal action pending in said county, in which said defendant was found guilty of assault with a dangerous weapon, and his punishment assessed at one year in the county jail, and that an appeal was had to the Criminal Court of Appeals of this state, and the judgment and sentence was by this…