Case Name: Ex parte ANNA BURLESON
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1917-01-09
Citations: 13 Okla. Crim. 50
Docket Number: No. A-2885
Parties: Ex parte ANNA BURLESON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 13
Pages: 50–51

Head Matter:
Ex parte ANNA BURLESON.
No. A-2885.
Opinion Filed January 9, 1917.
(161 Pac. 606.)
Application of Anna Burleson for writ of habeas corpus.
Writ allowed.
J. D. Chastain, for petitioner.
B. D. Shear and Frank Watson, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The petition of Anna Burleson for writ of habeas corpus filed in this court on December 11, 1916, alleges in substance that she is illegally restrained and unlawfully imprisoned in the city jail of Oklahoma City by W. B. Nichols, chief of police, by virtue of a commitment issued on a judgment of the municipal court, wherein the petitioner was sentenced to pay a fine of $99- and costs, and to be confined in said city jail for 30 days, and in default of the payment of said fine be further confined until the same is satisfied as by law provided.
The issue in this case is the same as in the case of Ex parte Johnson, ante, p. 30, 161 Pac. 1097, and presents. "the same question. For the reasons given in the opinion in that case, the writ is allowed, and the petitioner is discharged from custody.