Ex Parte Wells

MARTIN, Judge.

Appellant made application for a writ of habeas corpus before the District Court of Howard County, alleging that he was illegally restrained of his liberty by Ed Long, city marshal. Upon the trial respondent produced relator and answered that he held him upon instructions from J. M. Barker, sheriff of Kay County, Oklahoma, who telegraphed respondent that, he held a felony warrant and extradition papers for relator, and that the said Barker’s deputy had arrived with extradition papers from the Governor of Texas in legal and proper form, authorizing him to take into his possession…