Jordan v. Turner

This is an original action in habeas corpus instituted by the petitioner, Donald Ray Jordan, for the purpose of securing his release from confinement in the county jail of Oklahoma county.

This court assumed original jurisdiction to decide the question presented by counsel for the defendant as to whether a person is entitled to be discharged and a case pending against him dismissed where the facts show that the accused stood charged with a commission of a felony before an examining magistrate, and that before a preliminary examination is held a grand jury convenes and said cause is not…