Deseret Evening News | 1907-05-07 | Page 9 | A Soldier's Case

A SOLDIERS CASE l cm ou Cull COli rt I Win III lols f for r Corins Corpus BUll Antonio fax lox May B 6 William Lc Lewis ls a u former negro member ot tit com corn company pany F P Infantry has hns ap applied plied In tho the federal court for fOI a II writ of or habeas corpus alleging that he Is IR bc he be beIt InS It Illegally restrained rest mined of his hla liberty at Fort FOIt Bliss lillia After fter being acquitted cI In Ina a II civil court at nt 1 Bl I 1 Ia Ingo 1110 o on a 1 charge of ot murder in connection with the tho death of mother another member n 11 hOl of or the company to which I belonged and the fatal wounding of a 1 civilian Lewis was ens found guilty of conduct to 10 the tho of good food order rind and 1 military discipline by b n a 1 and his hl punishment fixed at dishonorable discharge r e from flom f root tho tin army 1111 mild mul to be he confined at at hard labor In for fOl five n vc yours 00 rs Letts now no asks that tho tha federal court li liberate b anto r him charging tint that he ho Is being Illegally confined and restrained of at his hi ille Tho Time petition 7 r In names MaJ J M Tf MT 1 T 9 I o J we tit Infantry n as 1111 a athe the officer ie restraining him The Time decision In this case cane will have an 1111 Important heming ring upon future court martial