LAWSON, Justice.
Joseph L. Taylor, who is presently confined in Kilby Prison, has filed in this court an instrument which is captioned "Petition for the Writ of Habeas Corpus."
The writ of habeas corpus issues from this court only when necessary in the exercise of the "general superintendence and control of inferior jurisdictions" with which it is clothed by § 140 of the Alabama Constitution. Ex parte Chaney, 8 Ala. 424; Ex parte Croom, 19 Ala. 561. See...
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