Legal Opinion
Ex parte McKnight
Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, Civil Division
Decided September 28, 1896Published
In Habeas Corpus.
1Opinion of the Court
PUGH J.
The relator, .Hiram P. McKnight, who is a prisoner in the Ohio penitentiary, seeks, in this proceeding of habeas corpus, tobe restored to his liberty.
In December, 1890, at least two indictments were preferred against him by the grand jury of Wood county, one for forgery and uttering a forged instrument with knowledge of its forged character, and the other for obtaining property under falser pretences.
He was then in the state of New York.He was extradited for the purpose of being tried for the crime of forgery.
In March, 1891, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary,…
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