South Dakota Supreme Court April 6, 1906 (State v. Pratt)

CORSON, J.

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Lyman county denying the defendant, Henry Pratt, a writ of habeas corpus. The defendant and petitioner in his petition for a writ stated in substance that on July 5, 1905, a complaint was filed in a justice’s court in Lyman county charging him jointly with two other persons with the commission of the crime of perjury; that he was