Ex Parte Elvin E. Jeffcoat

A petition was filed in this Court for an order reversing an order of the Circuit Court for Union County-denying to the petitioner a writ of habeas corpus and to order the Circuit Judge to allow the writ, and that this Court order a stay of execution of the death sentence entered against the petitioner which is to be executed upon him bn March 24, 1933, and for such other relief “as the conditions require.

We treat the petition filed in this Court as an application for a writ of habeas corpus upon the same grounds as set forth in the petition filed in the Circuit Court for Union County on the…