In re Parent

The petitioner, Parent, is restrained of his liberty in the custody of the sheriff of Spokane county, imprisoned in the county jail of that county. He seeks in this court a writ of habeas corpus directed to the sheriff, to the end that he be released from such imprisonment. By consent of counsel for petitioner and the prosecuting attorney for Spokane county, representing the sheriff, the question of the legality of petitioner’s imprisonment was heard in this court upon his petition for the writ, an order directed to the sheriff to show cause why the writ should not issue, and the sheriff’s…