Turner v. Conkey

— The appellant prosecutes this appeal from a judgment rendered upon a petition for a habeas corpus filed *249by the appellee. The material facts stated in the petition are, in substance, these : The petitioner was arrested upon a charge of felony, and taken before a justice of the peace for a preliminary hearing. The justice of the peace overruled a motion for a change of justices, and, upon a hearing, decided against the petitioner, and required him to give bail to answer the charge preferred against him. The petitioner failed to give bond, and he was committed to the custody of the appellant,…