Show TO TEST COPPER ACT Habeas Corpus Proceedings In the Supreme Court Whether or no the copper aetthat law which mitigates the sentence of prisoners in the penitentiary on condition con-dition of their good behavioris constitutional con-stitutional Is to be tested on Monday next in the supreme court Yesterday D H Wells attorney for George King a convict in the penitentiary peniten-tiary serving sentence for grand larceny lar-ceny flIed a petition for a writ of habeas ha-beas corpus with the supreme court for the purpose of making a test case to settle the question King was sentenced sen-tenced to a years imprisonment on I June 28 1S9S and allowing him his I copper of fifty days his term would have expired on May 3 He is still I held at the penitentiary awaiting a decision de-cision of the courts I |