State v. Williams

Ilsley, District Judge.

The defendant Williams was arrested, tried and convicted upon an information containing two counts, one of which charged possession and the other manufacture of intoxicating liquor.

Defendant complains that the motion to quash the warrant of arrest should have been sustained; that the warrant was a “bench warrant” and as such could only be issued by the court or by the court’s order, and that inasmuch as it was issued by the clerk without an order of the court therefor, it was a bad warrant and not legally issued. Counsel in his brief devotes considerable space to…