Ex parte Crawford

Lake, Ch. J.

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus. It is made on the information of Jesse. Crawford, who claims _ to be unlawfully deprived of his liberty by Barnabas Welton, who is sheriff of Holt county. The authority by *380•which the sheriff assumes to hold the informant is fully .set out, and the granting, or the withholding of the writ, must depend upon whether that authority is found to be lawful, or otherwise.

It appears that Crawford is under an indictment charging him with the crime of murder in the second degree, committed in that portion of the unorganized territory of the…