Ex parte Willke

The applicant in this case was arrested by virtue of a warrant from a justice of the peace, on the charge of theft of eleven doors, and was committed to jail on failure to give a bond for his appearance, in the sum of six hundred dollars. The applicant sued out a writ of habeas corpus before the district judge of the twenty-sixth judicial district, who, after hearing the evidence, remanded the applicant to jail in default of bail as fixed by the justice of the peace, and he has now appealed to this court for a revision of that judgment.

It is claimed by counsel for the applicant that their…