Ex parte Hays

This is an original action in habeas corpus instituted by the petitioner De Wayne Hays for the purpose of securing his discharge from the county jail of Oklahoma county. .

In the verified petition it is alleged that the restraint of the petitioner is by reason of a purported commitment issued by a justice of peace of Oklahoma City after a purported preliminary hearing before said justice of the peace; that the commitment of the'said justice of the peace was without legal effect and void for the reason that the evidence before said justice of the peace was wholly insufficient to show that a…