Ex Parte Arvin v. Williams

Joe Arvin filed his verified petition in the office of the clerk of the Kansas City Court of Appeals in vacation for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking to be discharged from imprisonment in the county jail of Jackson county, Missouri, and from the custody of the respondent J. L. Williams as sheriff of said county. The same was presented in vacation of the court to the writer, one of the judges of said court,, who granted the writ.

In obedience to such writ, the respondent has made return to the same, which discloses that the petitioner is in: his custody and is being imprisoned by him in the…