Ex parte Goodpasture v Russell

Ex parte Goodpasture v Russell
1914 OK CR 167
141 P. 1198
11 Okl.Cr. 663
Case Number: Nos. A-2308 and A-2309
Decided: 07/14/1914
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Application for writs of habeas corpus. Denied.

Robt. A. Lowry, for petitioners.

C.C. Suman, for respondent.

PER CURIAM. Claude Goodpasture and John Russell have filed in this court their respective petitions, wherein each avers that he is

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illegally restrained of his liberty by I.J. Hoyt, sheriff of Payne county, and that his illegal detention consists in this, to-wit: That petitioner was arrested upon a complaint charging that one Claude Goodpasture, Chris. S. Blacken, John Russell, and B. Hoffman, did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously keep a place, to-wit: a frame building on the southwest corner of the southwest quarter, section 35, township 18 north, range 6 east of I.M., with the intention of, and for the purpose of, selling, bartering, giving away and otherwise furnishing to the patrons of said place, spirituous, vinous, fermented and malt liquors, to-wit: whisky and beer, and on a preliminary examination before the county court of Payne county was held and committed and bail fixed pending the filing of an information in the district court.