Simmons v. Vandyke

The appellant sought to be released from custody and confinement in the county jail, and filed, in the lower court, his petition for the writ of habeas corpus-, alleging that the appellees William Vandyke, sheriff of Madison county, and George Welker, a policeman of the city of Anderson, had arrested the appellant and held him in custody without warrant or legal charge or authority, but upon a pretended charge of forgery in the State of Oregon, and pursuant to the direction of the chief of police of Portland, Oregon, communicated by telegraph; that he had not committed any crime, nor had he…