Owen v. White

Hutcheson, Justice.

On December 18, 1935, White filed in the city court of Columbus, Muscogee County, a petition for habeas corpus, alleging in substance as follows: The petitioner is illegally restrained of his liberty by Owen, jailor of the common jail of said county, and the cause of said restraint is a certain sentence imposed upon him by the superior court of Muscogee County, said senten.ce being predicated upon a verdict of a jury of said court, returned on December 10, 1935, upon a prosecution for the offense of arson as alleged in two counts of a bill of indictment returned by the…