Davis v. Hollowell

On the 9th day of January, 1933, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed in the district court of Lee county at Fort Madison, Iowa, in behalf of James Davis, the appellant. The petition alleges that James Davis is now illegally imprisoned and restrained of his liberty by the warden of the penitentiary without due process of law, contrary to article I, section 9 of the Iowa Constitution, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; that he is a citizen of the United States and is restrained by virtue of a void commitment and a void judgment pronounced by the…