In re Wheatley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

The petitioners apply for a writ of habeas corpus to release them from the custody of the sheriff of Johnson county who holds them under an order of court issued on a verdict of a jury convicting them of attempted robbery.

The information charged that the petitioners “did . . . unlawfully, feloniously take from the person of Virgil Benton and from the person of Roy Russell, and against their will, by putting *748the said Virgil Benton and Roy Russell in fear of some immediate injury to their person, two leather bill books, one from the person…