Winslow v. Green

— Habeas Corpus. The appellant was arrested, brought into the superior court of Porter county and tried by jury upon the charge of keeping a house of ill fame. He was convicted and adjudged to pay a fine of $60 and costs. He was neither arraigned nor pleaded to the charge. Upon failure to pay or replevy his fine he was committed to jail.

*369He afterward set forth the above facts in a petition to the Porter Circuit Court asking thereupon to be granted a writ of habeas corpus. The court refused the writ, and from the judgment of refusal he appeals. His contention here is that the judgment is a…