Ex parte Kenney

This was an application on part of petitioner for discharge from the penitentiary on a writ of habeas corpus. Prisoner was indicted at the November term, 1888, for burglary and larceny by the grand jury of Dade county, Missouri. He was duly arraigned, and, on his plea of not guilty, was convicted by the jury, and his punishment assessed for the burglary, at three years in the penitentiary, and for the larceny, two years. The sentence was pronounced by the court on the second day of February, 1889.

As the record in the case was made up, the clerk made two entries on his record as if there were…