Roberts v. Dunaway

L. M. Roberts brought habeas-corpus proceedings before the ordinary of Baldwin County, alleging that he was being illegally detained by B. H. Dunaway, warden of the Georgia State prison farm; that he -was being so held under the pretense that the warden had been informed that Roberts was convicted of the offense of highway robbery on August 27, 1917, and had been sentenced on that day by the presiding judge to a term of fifteen years in the Georgia Penitentiary. Petitioner alleges that he filed his application with the Prison Commission of Georgia and the Governor of the State, petitioning…