State Ex Rel. Hamilton v. Mayo

This is an application for habeas corpus addressed to this Court by a prisoner incarcerated in the State Prison. Attached to the petition for the writ are copies of the court proceedings under which petitioner was committed to serve a sentence of two years for the offense of feloniously receiving stolen property of the value of more than fifty dollars. Since petitioner is proceeding without the aid of counsel, we will dispose of the merits of the case absent the formal issuance and return of a writ of habeas corpus, the rule being well Settled that where an application for writ of habeas…