State Ex Rel. Jeffrey v. Tessmer

Peterson, Justice.

After preliminary examination on a charge of arson, relators were held by the municipal court of Glencoe to answer for the offense at the next general term of the district court of McLeod county. They are now in the custody of respondent as the sheriff of that county. The appeals are from orders quashing writs of habeas corpus and remanding them to custody.

Relators, who are mother and son, and one Weaver were charged with setting fire to the mother’s chicken hatchery. The fact of the fire was established by witnesses other than the parties named. The incendiary origin of the…