State ex rel. Walker v. Murphy

This is an original proceeding commenced in this court by the attorney general to obtain a final'judgment prohibiting the defendant, the judge of the St. Louis court of criminal correction, from further taking cognizance or asserting jurisdiction of an application made to said court by Judge John Gr. Wear for a writ of habeas corpus to release Charles Wear, who was in the custody of Lawrence Harrigan, chief of police of the city of St. Louis, and by him held *383for T. A. Tickell, the sheriff of New Madrid county, who held and had the legal custody of said Charles Wear by virtue of an alias…