O'Neill v. Thomas, Warden

This is an original action in habeas corpus, brought in this court by Edward T. O’Neill, a prisoner in the Ohio state penitentiary, claiming that P. E. Thomas, as warden of said penitentiary, unlawfully restrains him and denies him his liberty.

It appears from the record that O’Neill was convicted of the crime of robbery, by the verdict of a jury in the court of common pleas of "Williams county, Ohio. Tbe indictment under which he was convicted charged his offense as having been committed on the 20th day of May, 1920. The sentence imposed by the trial court was “that the said "defendant,…