State Ex Rel. Padgett v. Windham

The judgments remanding the prisoners in these several cases to the custody of the sheriff must be affirmed by the Court on the authority of the general rule' stated in Bell v. Gregory, 89 Fla. 293, 103 Sou. Rep. 832, wherein it was held that in habeas corpus proceedings the Supreme Court will only inquire whether the complaint upon which the defendant is held, or has been convicted,' charges a public offense, and will discharge persons in custody under criminal process only when it finds that to the charge attempted to be preferred, no criminality is attached-by law.

Habeas corpus is not a…