Ex parte Perdue

The defendants, charged with the crime of removing mortgaged property, on being properly brought before Lee Ward, one of the justices of Union county, were by him bound over to appear before the Union circuit court, and for that purpose were committed to the Unib'n county jail, in default of making bail in the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars each.

Subsequently, they presented their petition to the Hon. Charles W. Smith, the judge of the 13th judicial circuit, which includes the said county of Union, and with it the evidence in the cause, or so much thereof as affects the issue relied on…