Ex parte Jones

At the November term, 1876, of the court below, Alonzo B. Jones, Lee Jones and Milton P. Toliver, the appellants, and one Thomas Toliver filed their petition or complaint, duly signed and verified, praying therein for the issue of the writ of habeas corpus, in their behalf.

In their petition the said petitioners alleged, in substance, that they weret then, each and all, restrained of their liberty by "Williamson M. Alexander, sheriff and jailer of Monroe county, Indiana; that they were so restrained of their liberty in the common jail of said county, in the city of Bloomington, in said Monroe…