Ex parte Cook

Per Sanderson, J.:

On the 30th of January, 1868, the petitioner surrendered his person to the custody of the Sheriff of Solano County, to answer a charge of murder, alleged to have been committed by him, on that day and in that county, upon the person of one Charles Turcke. Thereupon the Sheriff took him before a Justice of the Peace in that county, where he waived an examination and was committed. Thereafter, under a writ of habeas corpus, he was admitted to bail by the County Judge in the sum of eight thousand dollars, which he gave, and was discharged from custody.

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