Haden v. Dowd

The appellant sought to be discharged from the custody of the warden of the Indiana State Prison by a habeas . corpus proceeding in the Circuit Court of La Porte County. A writ issued, but upon motion it was quashed. The appellant refused to plead further and there was judgment against him.

It appears from appellant’s petition that an affidavit was filed against him in the Superior Court of St. Joseph County, charging him in three separate counts with robbery, robbery while armed, and automobile banditry; that he entered a plea of guilty and there was judgment, regular in form, sentencing him…