James v. Waldrop

Appellant filed her petition against appellee, the sheriff of Marion county, addressed to the circuit judge of the Fifteenth judicial district, in which Marion county is situated, for a writ of habeas corpus, setting up that she was unlawfully restrained of her liberty by appellee. The cause was tried by the circuit judge on the petition, appellee’s answer thereto, and evidence. The judgment rendered recited that the petition was well-founded, for the reason, only, that the judgment of the circuit court of Marion county, under which appellant was held in custody, adjudging her guilty of the…