Ex parte Cox

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus for the release of John P. Cox, who, it is alleged, is unlawfully imprisoned and restrained of his liberty by John P. Campbell, warden of the Idaho state prison at Boise City, Idaho. It is alleged in the petition that said Cox was indicted at the June term, 1891, and tried at the October term, 1891, of the district court of the second judicial district of the state of Idaho, in and for the county of Idaho, for an 'assault with intent to commit murder, and that the jury returned the following verdict: “We, the jury in the above-entitled case,…