Commonwealth v. Carmackle

Opinion op ti-ie Court by

Chief Justice Hurt

Dismissing the petition.. John Bailey was indicted for the crime of murder in the Knox circuit court, and by an order of the same court, was being held in the custody of the jailer of Harlan county upon the charge of which he was indicted. For the purpose of being admitted to bail for his appearance to answer the indictment, he procured the judge of the circuit conrt for the district of which Harlan county is a part, to cause the jailer of Harlan county to produce him before the judg'e, by a writ of habeas corpus. After a heading before the circuit…