Indiana Supreme Court November 15, 1878 (Wentworth v. Alexander)

Biddle, J.

Petition by the appellants, for a writ of habeas corpus, against the appellee, sheriff of Monroe county.

The petition states the following facts :

That the plaintiffs are restrained of their liberty by the defendant; that the cause of such restraint is, that, at the January term of the Monroe Circuit Court, 1879, the defendants were indicted for murder in the second degree, alleged to