The People v. Wilson

On April 22, 1933, the plaintiff in error (hereinafter called the defendant) was arrested on a warrant charging him with arson and brought before a justice of the peace of Lake county. On the same day, on the defendant’s failure to give bail, the magistrate issued a mittimus committing the defendant to the Lake county jail. The case was continued from time to time until June 8, 1933. Pending such time, on successive continuances the defendant was committed to the county jail for failure to give bail. On June 8 a preliminary hearing was had. The same magistrate held the defendant to the grand…