Ex parte Shaffer

Ex parte Shaffer
1915 OK CR 176
148 P. 1150
11 Okl.Cr. 736
Case Number: No. A-2413
Decided: 05/28/1915
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Application of William Shaffer for writ of habeas corpus. Writ denied.

James Hepburn, for petitioner.

Page 737

PER CURIAM. The petitioner, William Shaffer, on March 13, 1915, filed in this court an application for a writ of habeas corpus, wherein it is averred that he is unlawfully imprisoned and restrained of his liberty by W.E.B. Sherwood, sheriff of Logan county, that the cause of said restraint is that on the ___?___ day of March, 1914, he was jointly charged with one Edward J. Coyle with the crime of arson by two informations filed in the district court of Logan county; that since his arrest there has been three terms of said court, to-wit: the June term, 1914; the November term, 1914; and the January term, 1915. That your petitioner was not tried at any of the terms of said court, and was thereby denied his constitutional right to a speedy trial.