State Ex Rel. Taylor v. Blair

The State, at the relation of the Attorney General, instituted in this court three separate proceedings in certiorari to review the records of the Circuit Court of Cole County (of which the respondent Hon. Sam C. Blair is judge) in certain habeas corpus proceedings lately pending therein, and severally brought by Ferguson, Slyker and Debert (hereinafter referred to as petitioners) to effect their release from the Missouri Penitentiary. On the merits there is but one point involved, and as it is common to all of the cases, the three proceedings have been consolidated, and will be disposed of…