Miller v. Allen

Allen, the appellee, sued out a writ of habeas corpus, before the judge of ihe Court of Common *390Pleas of Clark and Scott counties, against the appellant, who returned that he had the petitioner in custody in the Indiana state prison, by virtue of the judgment and sentence of the Spencer Circuit Court.

It appears, by the return, that on the 12th of November, 1856, the petitioner was sentenced, on two several charges, to two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, on each. On the second charge (in the order of their standing on the docket) it was ordered that the term of imprisonment commence…