State ex rel. Williams v. Pertsdorf

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, O. J.

This is an application for a habeas corpus.

The relator charges that he was illegally arrested, confined, and is held for an offense within the appellate jurisdiction of this Court, and that he is entitled to be restored to liberty. The illegality propounded consists in this: that the mittimus is signed by one I. W. Falls, who has ceased to be a committing magistrate, and who was replaced by one A. P. Keller, under executive appointment, the term of office for which Falls had been elected, commissioned and qualified having expired, and…