Ex Parte Hobbs
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
On the 9th day of May, 1893, the applicant presented his petition to the Hon. T. J. Brown for the writ of habeas corpus. It set up,, that he was illegally restrained in his liberty by J. L. Moulden, sheriff of Collin County, and one Hiram" Church, who was the agent for the State of Tennessee. That he was restrained by virtue of a warrant issued by J. T. Andrews, a justice of the peace in Collin County, upon a complaint charging him with an assault to murder one Oats.
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On the 9th day of May, 1893, the applicant presented his petition to the Hon. T. J. Brown for the writ of habeas corpus. It set up,, that he was illegally restrained in his liberty by J. L. Moulden, sheriff of Collin County, and one Hiram" Church, who was the agent for the State of Tennessee. That he was restrained by virtue of a warrant issued by J. T. Andrews, a justice of the peace in Collin County, upon a complaint charging him with an assault to murder one Oats. That an examining trial had been commenced, but not concluded, before said justice, and that the case had been set over; and…
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge.
Relator was arrested under an executive warrant issued by the Governor of this State, on the requisition of the Governor of Tennessee, for the crime of murder, committed in the State of Tennessee. This executive warrant was issued in February, and was duly executed in Collin County by the arrest and delivery of relator to one C. D. Heard, the duly authorized agent of the State of Tennessee. The said agent conveyed the said relator out of the limits of the State, and while on his way to Tennessee, to-wit, at Meridian, Mississippi, relator escaped from the custody of said agent…
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