Blackwell v. Austin

HARWOOD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment and decree of the Circuit Court of Elmore County, denying appellant’s discharge on habeas corpus proceedings from her imprisonment in Julia' Tutwiler Prison.

Her petition alleges that she is illegally confined under a judgment and sentence made and imposed by W. E. Strickland, a Justice of the Peace in and for Beat 18 in Elmore County, Alabama, for an offense allegedly committed in Beat 8 of Elmore County, despite the fact that a Justice-of the Peace for Beat 8 was duly qualified,-

The State demurred to the petition, assigning numerous grounds,…