Quaintance v. Lamb

A preliminary information, accusing Cecil Quaintance, 16 years of age, of having committed the crime of murder, was fded June 20, 1918, with a justice of the peace of Poweshiek County, F. D. Light, who issued a warrant for his arrest. Thereupon, he was arrested, and brought before the justice for a preliminary hearing, and waived it. The justice ordered that he be held without bail, to answer any indictment which might be returned by the grand jury against him, and also that E. D. Lamb, sheriff of said county, detain him in jail, to await the action of the grand jury. Two days later, the…