Williams v. Mize
Supreme Court of Georgia
Constitutional Law. Criminal Law. Sheriffs. Courts. Before Judge Fort. Sumter County. At Chambers, February 16,1883. • Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Blandkord, Justice.
The plaintiff in error having been arrested and placed in jail, presented his petition to the judge of the superior court, praying the issuing of a writ of habeas corpus, which was awarded by the judge, and at the hearing, nothing appeared but the petition and the return of the sheriff, which adopted the facts in prisoner’s petition. The judge refused to set the prisoner at liberty, but remanded him to jail, to .answer indictment in the superior court. This ruling is excepted to, and error assigned thereon.
It appears that the prisoner had been arrested for simple larceny,…
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