Ex Parte David Busby

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an original petition for habeas corpus commenced in this court.

The papers filed by petitioner indicate that, in 1956, he pleaded guilty to an indictment for rape and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He prays for release from “his illegal incarceration in this cause.”

Since Ex parte Simonton, 9 Port. 383, decided in 1839, it has been regarded as settled that the writ of habeas corpus may issue from this court only when necessary in the exercise of the general superintendence and control of inferior jurisdictions with which this court is clothed by the Constitution. §…