Peters v. Koepke

The appellant filed in the Vanderburgh Circuit Court his petition for a writ of liabeas corpus, alleging that he was unlawfully restrained of his liberty in the jail of that county by the appellee, who was the -sheriff thereof. The petition further state,d that on January 26, 1900, appellant was charged upon affidavit in the police court of the city of Evansville with having on January'25, •1900, at said county, committed an assault and battery upon one Samuel-J. Smith; that he was arrested upon said charge, and taken before the judge of the said police court; , that for plea to the affidavit…