In Re Wilcox for Writ of Habeas Corpus

Herschel A. Wilcox of the city and county of Providence, in this State, by his attorney, has filed in this court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus setting forth that he is unlawfully imprisoned and held in custody at Cranston in said county by John Y. Chapman, the Warden of the State Prison, or some other person as his keeper, by virtue of a mittimus issuing out of the Superior Court sitting within and for said county.

It also appears that after trial in said Superior Court upon an indictment entitled State v. Herschel A. Wilcox and Thomas H. Hughes, the petitioner on January 24, 1918,…