Brown v. Hoblitzell

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying the appellant, James Brown, release *741from the Jefferson County jail on a writ of habeas corpus.

The response was that appellant was in appellee’s custody, as jailer, under five commitments from the Jefferson Quarterly Court, dated November 19, 1953. No question is raised as to the form of the commitments or whether they were issued on the judgments described later.

It is urged that the judgments are void because: (1) they were rendered by a person who had no legal judicial authority or power; and (2) the petitioner was convicted on five…