Ex Parte Lansdon

The petitioners, Howard Lansdon and Daniel Daniels, it appears, were arrested in Nowata county, and were jointly charged with the crime of assault with intent to kill one H. B. Lowery and one Rupert Lemons, and taken before W. H. Thomason, county judge, and on their preliminary examination were held to the- district court, and the appearance bond of each fixed in the sum of $5,000.

It is alleged that they are unlawfully imprisoned by W. F. Gillespey, sheriff of said county, because the evidence introduced before said committing magistrate upon such preliminary examination wholly fails to show…