State Ex Rel. Hobbs v. Murrell

Mr. ¡Justice Chambliss

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a petition for habeas corpus which was dismissed by the trial judge, who thus states the case in his memorandum opinion, copied into the record:

“The petitioner alleges that he is illegally restrained of his liberty by reason of certain orders made by this court on November 27, 1933, in three separate cases the orders are identical in all three cases and are in the following words:

“Came the defendant in person and the Attorney General by leave enters a nolle prosequi on defendant’s paying, securing or working out all costs,…