Dowd, Warden v. Anderson

This is an appeal from a judgment discharging the appellee from the custody of the warden of the Indiana State Prison upon his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

By his petition and the return it was made to appear that he was held on a commitment issued by the Crawford Circuit Court, a court of general jurisdiction, upon a judgment, regular upon its face, finding him guilty of murder upon his plea of guilty. He had served five years of his sentence when the proceeding was begun. The appellee’s petition for habeas corpus alleges facts substantially identical with those in State ex rel.…