State Ex Rel. Isle v. Tahash

Knutson, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of Washington County denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

On January 4, 1952, an indictment was returned by the grand jury of Crow Wing County charging petitioner, Charles Isle, with the crime of murder in the first degree. The pertinent portions of the indictment read:

“Charles Isle Accused by the Grand Jury of the County of Crow Wing and State of Minnesota, by this indictment of the crime of murder in the first degree committed as follows:

“The said Charles Isle on the 18th day of December A. D. 1951, at the…