Teasley v. Nelson

Fred Teasley brought a petition for habeas corpus against B. F. Nelson as warden of Whitfield County chain-gang, on October 30, 1926, praying that the warden be required to produce the body of Fred Teasley before Judge M. C. Tarver, together with the cause of the plaintiff’s detention, etc. On November 1, 1926, the respondent produced the body of the plaintiff, and filed his answer. On the hearing of the case the plaintiff introduced certain orders of the court .sentencing the plaintiff in three certain cases against him in Whitfield superior court; one for carrying a pistol in two counts,…