Ex parte Craig

On the twenty-third day of May, 1895, and pending the April term of this court, Enos Craig presented his petition to the judges of this court for a writ of habeas corpus directed to the sheriff of Buchanan county, who was charged to be illegally depriving said petitioner of his liberty.

It appeared that at the general election in 1894 said Enos Craig and Robert M. Nash were candidates for ■ the office of county clerk of Buchanan county; that said Craig received the certificate of election and in due *591time his commission from the governor and took possession of the office; that Nash, in due time…