Ex parte Mason

The petitioner, Isaac M. Mason, sheriff of the city of St. Louis, has been arrested and detained by Sylvester Nidelet, coroner of said city, under an attachment issued by the circuit court of Webster County, charging the petitioner with a contempt of said court in refusing to execute an attachment issued by said court against a witness on behalf of a defendant who stood indicted for the crime of arson. The petition sets forth in /me verba the attachment under which the petitioner is detained. This attachment sets forth the particular circumstances of the offence charged against the petitioner…