In re Bollig
Illinois Supreme Court
APPLICATION FOR HABEAS CORPUS. This was am application to this court by Peter Bollig, for a writ of habeas corpus. It was represented in the petition, that Bollig was then imprisoned and detained in the county jail of Bureau county, by one Silas Battey, (who was, at the time, sheriff of said county and keeper of the jail), without any legal authority, under color of a certain pretended commitment, issued by one George O. Ide, a justice of the peace of said county.
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APPLICATION FOR HABEAS CORPUS. This was am application to this court by Peter Bollig, for a writ of habeas corpus. It was represented in the petition, that Bollig was then imprisoned and detained in the county jail of Bureau county, by one Silas Battey, (who was, at the time, sheriff of said county and keeper of the jail), without any legal authority, under color of a certain pretended commitment, issued by one George O. Ide, a justice of the peace of said county. The following history of the proceedings upon which the commitment was issued, will show the grounds of this application. The town…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice BREese
This is an application for a habeas corpus, in which the petitioner alleges that he is imprisoned and detained in the jail of Bureau county, by the sheriff of that county, without any legal authority, under color of a pretended commitment issued by a justice of the peace of that county. Prom the proofs exhibited, it appears the petitioner was duly prosecuted and convicted before the police magistrate of Princeton, in the county of Bureau, of a violation of section two of an ordinance of that town relating to brandy, rum, gin, whisky, beer, etc., adopted February 23, 1863. This ordinance…
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