King v. McKnight

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiffs, who had been bound over to the Butler county district court to answer certain criminal charges lodged against them, were ordered released from custody on a writ of habeas corpus. The sheriff appeals.

The facts were these: On January 28, 1925, a complaint in four counts was sworn to before E. D. Stratford, a justice of the peace of the city of El Dorado, charging certain felonies against C. L. King and H. F. Ferry, respectively president and cashier of the Butler County State Bank, in the matter of accepting deposits for that…