Reeves v. State

RICE, Judge.

Petitioner, Tank Reeves, brings this appeal from an order of the Honorable D. C. Halstead as Judge of the 20th Judicial Circuit of Alabama denying his petition for the writ of habeas corpus and remanding him to the custody of the Sheriff of Houston County.

The facts are: Petitioner was regularly put on trial in the Circuit Court of Houston County under an indictment (omitting formal parts) in words and figures as follows, to-wit: “The Grand Jury of said County charge that, before the finding of this indictment Tank'Reeves, whose name is to the Grand Jury otherwise unknown, did, in…