In re Danton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

The petitioner asks to be released from the custody of the sheriff who holds him on a commitment of an examining magistrate of Rice county. Bail was fixed by the magistrate at $500 which the petitioner declined to give, but since the institution of this proceeding he has been released from custody on an order of a justice of this court. He was *452arrested, in Rice county on the complaint of the county attorney charging that “by word of mouth and by writing and distributing literature and pamphlets the said William Danton did then and there…