In re Songer

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Teller.

In the matter of the application of Charles Songer for a writ of Habeas Corpus:

The petitioner, an adult, was tried in the Juvenile Court of the City and County of Denver, on a charge of rape, and was convicted and sentenced to the State Penitentiary. Having served nearly four years of his sentence, which was for not more than one hundred years, nor less than ninety years, he sued out a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court of said City and County.

The return to the writ set up the conviction and sentence in the Juvenile Court, to which the petitioner filed a…