Ex parte Dawson

RINER, District Judge.

In November, 1896, L. P. Dawson filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court for the Western district of Arkansas; alleging that be was unlawfully restrained of bis liberty by one M. C. Rushin, contrary to tbe constitution and laws of tbe United States. Tbe writ was issued, and on tbe return day tbe respondent made bis return thereto, as follows:

“Comes M. C. Rushin, and produces herein the body of Oliver P. .Tones, who describes himself in the petition herein as L. P. Dawson, and states to the court that he has the said Dawson, alias Jones, in his…