State Ex Rel. Stewart v. Blair and Smith

[270] These two consolidated certiorari proceedings were instituted in this court by the acting Warden óf the State penitenitary,to review, respectively: the record in a habeas corpus proceeding brought by. Charles Edgar Cory last, year in the circuit court of Cole county, of which the respondent Hon. Sam C. Blair is judge; and the record in another habeas corpus proceeding brought by the same Cory this year in the circuit court of Newton county, of which the respondent TIon. Emory E. Smith' is judge. Both habeas-corpus proceedings involved the legality of the conviction of Cory on a felony…