Ex parte Lewis

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Ex parte Lewis
1931 OK CR 416
3 P.2d 242
52 Okl.Cr. 124
Decided: 09/19/1931
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Application of Robert Lewis and another for writ of habeas corpus, in which order to show cause was duly served on Sheriff of Oklahoma County and the County Attorney of Oklahoma County. Writ of habeas corpus allowed.

F.E. Sides, for petitioners.

J. Berry King, Atty. Gen., and Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

CHAPPELL, J. Petitioners allege that they are restrained of their liberty and are unlawfully imprisoned and restrained in the county jail of Oklahoma county by the sheriff of said county, under an unlawful and void

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commitment issued by Carl Traub, a justice of the peace of said county; that petitioners have been confined in the county jail of Oklahoma county since the 10th day of July, 1931, and have long since served the necessary time to cancel their fines and costs under the law.

Order to show cause was duly served upon the sheriff and the county attorney of Oklahoma county.

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