McFarland v. Donaldson

Japheth McFarland was convicted of forcible detainer, in tbe criminal court of Atlanta, and sentenced by the judge of that court to labor upon the public works of Fulton county. While in the chain-gang of that county, he sued out a writ of habeas corpus against Donaldson, superintendent of such chain-gang. Upon hearing of the habeas corpus, the petitioner was remanded to custody, and he excepted. The petition for habeas corpus alleged, among other reasons why petitioner’s imprisonment was illegal, that the accusation upon which he was tried and convicted was based upon an affidavit made…