Ex parte Richards

On the 18th day of May, 1885, the appellant Charles Richards was arrested upon a warrant issued by the coroner of Perry county, charging him with the murder of one Reuben Johnson, at such county, on the 17th day of May, 1885. He was taken before a justice of the peace of the county, and, upon an examination then had, he was committed to the county jail upon such charge without bail. On the same day he presented his verified petition to the Honorable George L. Reinhard, judge of the Perry Circuit Court, in vacation, alleging therein that his killing of Reuben .Johnson was in his own just and…