Tullis v. Fleming

On the 23d day of August, 1875, Thomas Tullis, the appellant, filed in the office of the clerk of the Madison Circuit Court his petition, addressed to the judge of said court, alleging that he was unlawfully restrained of his liberty by one John "W. McAllister, then sheriff of the county of Madison. A writ of habeas corpus was thereupon issued to the said McAllister, returnable before said judge at chambers on the same day.

McAllister made return that he held the appellant in his custody as sheriff as above stated, under a warrant issued by the Governor of Indiana, upon a requisition from the…