State v. Decker

Ames, C.

One John F. Decker had been arrested and was detained by the sheriff of Lancaster county, and in the common jail of that county, upon a warrant issued by a justice of the peace, and charging him with having committed the offense of perjury while testifying as a witness upon the trial of a civil action in the district court for that county, Decker applied to the district court for, and obtained, a writ of habeas corpus under which to have inquiry made into the legality of his detention. The sheriff to whom the writ was directed made due return thereto, producing the person of the…