Ex Parte Richardson

The petitioner represents that he is restrained of his liberty in the county jail by Stanley Rogers, sheriff of Oklahoma county; that the cause of such restraint is that he was tried in the court of W. P. Hawkins, a justice of the peace in and for Oklahoma City district, Oklahoma county, charged with the commission of a misdemeanor; that petitioner was tried by a jury, found guilty, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $12.50 and costs and imprisonment in the county jail for a period of ten days.

The petitioner alleges that said commitment is void and without authority of law; that the…