Ex parte Ainsworth

This was a proceeding before the District Court of Trinity county. The petition charges that the relator, who was in the military service of the Confederate States, had furnished a substitute, fifty-one years old, who was accepted. That after his. discharge he was held in the service and thereby illegally restrained of his liberty. The record recites that the court refused to grant the writ on the ground that the petition did not disclose any fact sufficient to entitle the applicant to the writ. A motion for a new trial having been overruled, the relator prosecutes this appeal.

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