In re Doll

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus requiring the managers and superintendent of the state reformatory at St. Cloud, Stearns county, in this state, to produce before this court Joseph Doll, who, upon an indictment and conviction of a criminal offence, was sentenced by the district court in Otter Tail county to be confined in said reformatory. No proof or evidence is offered, nor is it suggested, that there is not in Stearns county a court or officer authorized to grant the writ, or, if there is, that he has refused to grant it, or is absent or incapable of acting.

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