Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Cockburn
Supreme Court of Missouri
Decided December 17, 1923PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The petitioner alleges that he is unlawfully deprived of his liberty by John F. Willman, Sheriff of St. Louis County, Missouri, and Park Findley, Sheriff of Polk County, Iowa. The formal issuance of the writ and the production of the body of the petitioner before this court having been waived, the returns of the respondents to the allegations of the petitioner’s application are considered as though they were made to the writ under the recognized formalities of our procedure in cases of this character.
The petitioner was indicted by the grand jury of Polk County, Iowa, for obtaining money under…
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