State Ex Rel. Smith v. Lee

The defendant, Harry Smith, petitions this court for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that he is unlawfully imprisoned in the penitentiary of North Dakota, by one John Lee, Warden of the State Penitentiary. Accompanying his petition are the records of his case in the district court in and for Grand Forks county, from which it appears that on the 22nd day of May, 1916, the state's attorney of Grand Forks county filed a complaint against the defendant, charging him with murder in the first degree; that he was brought into justice court on said complaint; waived examination, and was held to the…