West v. Embree

P. C. West filed his petition for the writ of habeas corpus, for the purpose of obtaining the release of his minor daughter, who, he alleged, was illegally detained by the defendant, the matron of the Georgia Training School for Girls. The minor daughter had been committed to that institution by-a judgment rendered in the juvenile court of Fulton county. The petition, which on various constitutional grounds attacked the act of the General Assembly approved August 16, 1915 (Acts 1915, p. 35), creating said court, was demurred to by the defendant. The court passed the following order therein: “…