In re Short
Supreme Court of Kansas
Original Proceedings in Habeas Corpus. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion, filed at the session of the court in November, 1891.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
Two proceedings in habeas corpus have been instituted in this court, in each of which the validity of the organization of Garfield county is attempted to be challenged. In the first proceeding, it appears that Mrs. Cordelia Short was regulary charged in the district court of that county upon a criminal information with committing the offense of manslaughter in the first degree. She obtained a change of venue from that court to the district court of Hodgeman county, where she was tried and convicted, and sentenced to confinement in the…
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