Hawk v. Hollowell

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

A petition for a writ of habeas corpus has been presented to me as one of the judges of the Circuit Court of Appeals of *886the Eighth Circuit, in which it is claimed that petitioner has been deprived of his liberty by the state of Iowa without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

The facts gathered from the petition are that petitioner was indicted by the grand jury of the district court of Mills county, Iowa, for the crime of grand larceny in the stealing of a load of corn worth more than $20; the ownership of the corn not being…