Miskimmins v. Shaver
Wyoming Supreme Court
Petition by John Miskimmins for a writ of habeas corpus. This is a writ of habeas corpus. The prosecuting attorney of Laramie County upon information furnished him by the plaintiff made complaint before a justice of the peace against one Oliver C. Hough charging him with having obtained the sum of $1,130 from plaintiff by false pretenses.
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Petition by John Miskimmins for a writ of habeas corpus. This is a writ of habeas corpus. The prosecuting attorney of Laramie County upon information furnished him by the plaintiff made complaint before a justice of the peace against one Oliver C. Hough charging him with having obtained the sum of $1,130 from plaintiff by false pretenses. He and one James Raff also charged with the same offense had left this State and gone to the State of Colorado, and the plaintiff made the necessary affidavit to obtain a requisition, and they were arrested and brought back, to this State for trial. Upon the…
1Opinion of the Court
Coen, Justice,
(after stating the facts as above).
A number of questions arise in this case, none of which have been passed upon by this court. Some of them *401are of serious importance, and, owing to the difference in the habeas corpus statutes in the various States and some conflict in the decisions, of considerable difficulty. Therefore, while the circumstances of the case have urged an immediate decision, we have deemed it better to take sufficient time to give the propositions a careful consideration and endeavor to reach a conclusion which could be relied on as a safe precedent in so serious…
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