Application of Lane

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Application of Lane
1923 OK CR 341
220 P. 1117
25 Okl.Cr. 360
Decided: 12/10/1923
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Application of H.B. Lane for writ of habeas corpus. Writ denied.

C.F. Gowdy, for petitioner.

The Attorney General, contra.

PER CURIAM. On October 13, 1923, petitioner H.B. Lane appealed to this court for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he was unlawfully deprived of his liberty and confined in the county jail of Nowata county, Okla., by W.S.

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Gillespie, sheriff of said county. For cause for issuance of the writ petitioner alleged that he was charged with the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquors in the county court of Nowata county, with an appearance bond fixed in the sum of $1,500; that on the 6th day of October, 1923, the October term of said county court adjourned without trying this petitioner, although said petitioner was confined in jail at said time.

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