State Ex Rel. Wentworth v. Coleman

The plaintiff in error, J. H. Wentworth, sued out a writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court of Dade County, in which proceeding he advanced the contention that he should be discharged from custody in the instant case because it was shown that the sole cause for his detention by the respondent Sheriff was an arrest under a capias that had been issued on a criminal information filed charging him with embezzlement. Such information, so it was alleged, had become void and of no legal effect because of an alleged unlawful and unauthorized alteration made therein by the County Solicitor, after…