Hallway v. Byers

— The imprisonment of the plaintiff finds its basis in a mittimus issued by the defendant justice of the peace, directed to the defendant Wise, jailer of Polk County, commanding him to receive Hallway "into custody and detain him in the jail of the county until he be legally discharged by due course of law."

The competent record facts disclose that an information was filed before W. W. Byers, justice of the peace in and for Bloomfield Township, Polk County, Iowa, accusing Hallway of the crime of uttering and drawing a false check, as defined by Section 13047, Code of 1924. Hallway was…