WORKS v. STATE

3 Div. 116.

141 So.2d 537 (1962)

Lamar WORKS v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

May 15, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lamar Works, pro se.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., Bernard F. Sykes, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John F. Ingram, Legal Research Aide, Montgomery, for the State.


CATES, Judge.

Code 1940, T. 15, § 27, reads in part as follows:

"No court, or judge, on the return of a writ of habeas corpus, has authority to inquire into the regularity or justice of any order, judgment, decree, or process of any court legally constituted, * * *."

The warden of Kilby Prison, in his return to Works's petition for habeas corpus, exhibited an indictment of Works for robbery and judgment entry showing his arraignment (with counsel...

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