State v. Scoles

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal by the State of Alabama from an order of Honorable Arthur Fite, Jr., Judge of the Circuity Court of Walker County, granting the petition of Bethel Scoles for a writ of habeas corpus, *60and ordering the discharge of Scoles from the custody of the Sheriff of Walker County.

At the hearing • before Judge Fite the facts were stipulated.

Among other things this stipulation shows that Scoles was arrested in January 1956 under an affidavit and warrant charging him with the offense of violating the prohibition lazvs of the State of Alabama. The warrant was…