Dykes v. Compton

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that an indictment may be so deficient that it fails to “clothe the court with jurisdiction to enter a judgment of conviction” and may entitle the petitioner to habeas corpus relief
• holding that an defective indictment may deprive court of jurisdiction
• noting that “the validity of an indictment and the efficacy of the resulting conviction may be addressed in a petition for habeas corpus only when the indictment is so defective as to deprive the court of jurisdiction”
• habeas corpus relief appropriate if indictment is so deficient as to deprive trial court of jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).