Legal Opinion

In re Turner

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided January 9, 1915No. 19,858PublishedCited by 37 opinions

Original proceeding in habeas corpus.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

Mary Turner, a girl fifteen years of age, by her father and next friend, alleges that she is restrained of her liberty by certain officers of Shawnee county, acting under color of authority from the probate court, who are unlawfully holding and imprisoning her “solely under and by virtue of'an insufficient complaint and void' warrant, and under a void order and commitment committing said Mary *117Turner to the Industrial School for Girls at Beloit”; that she was arrested upon a warrant issued upon a complaint which charged no crime warranting her…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. FisherSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1905
  2. Fontain v. RavenelSupreme Court of the United States · 1855
  3. Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls v. Clark CountyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1899
  4. In re a Writ of Habeas Corpus for SharpIdaho Supreme Court · 1908
  5. Lindsay v. LindsayIllinois Supreme Court · 1913

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3Cited by37 opinions

  1. Pee v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1959
  2. Thomas v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1941
  3. Wissenburg v. BradleySupreme Court of Iowa · 1929
  4. State Ex Rel. Londerholm v. OwensSupreme Court of Kansas · 1966
  5. State Ex Rel. Minot v. GronnaNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1953

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