State ex rel. Brinkley v. Wright

This is a habeas corpus proceedings. Its purpose is to obtain a judgment ordering the discharge of Walter Ridley from the penitentiary where he is being held by virtue of a judgment of the Criminal Court of Shelby County sentencing him to the penitentiary for a period of not more than ten years as punishment for his conviction by a jury of murder in the second degree. The basis upon which it is sought to justify the petition is that the judgment and sentence is a nullity for each of the two reasons hereafter stated.

The Circuit Judge entered of record a judgment denying the petition on the…