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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte HERBERT ADAMS.
    No. A-2901.
    Opinion Filed January 17, 1917.
    (162 Pac. 231.)
    HABEAS CORPUS — Second Application — Moot Case. Where, on the return day of a rule to show cause why habeas corpus should not be issued by the Criminal Court of Appeals, ilt was shown that upon a similar application in the district court petitioner had been discharged, the application in the Criminal Court of Appeals will be dismissed.
    Application of Herbert Adams for writ of habeas corpus.
    
    Dismissed.
    
      Hargis & Griffin, for petitioner.
    
      E. L. McCain, for respondent.
   PER CURIAM.

This is an application for writ of habeas corpus by Herbert Adams, who alleges that he is illegally restrained and unlawfully imprisoned in the city ¿ail of Pawhuska by O. T. Tackett, chief of police of said city, under a commitment issued on a judgment of the police court of said city wherein the petitioner was sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs and to be confined in said city jail for five days, and in default of the payment of said fine and costs to be further confined until the same is satisfied as by law provided.

The petition was presented to this court on January 2, and a rule to show cause was entered, returnable January 4, 1917, at’ which time it was shown that upon a similar application pending in the district court a writ of habeas corpus■ was allowed and petitioner discharged.

This cause is therefore dismissed.