Convey v. Haynes

On July 10, 1940, plaintiff filed in the Lee county district court a petition in habeas corpus in the usual form, alleging that he is confined in the penitentiary at Fort Madison by virtue of a mittimus issued out of the district eourt of Plymouth county; that on the 19th of November, 1919, the plaintiff, with W. Cullon and others, was indicted for the crime of murder; that he entered a plea of guilty thereto, but that the court made on examination of witnesses to determine the degree of the offense, the record does not show that the grand jury which returned the indictment was a legal grand…