State ex rel. Leach v. Olson

This is a proceeding by habeas corpus to test the sufficiency of the criminal complaint. The complaint is as follows: “Harry Heskett being first duly sworn says that on the 24th day of July, a. n. 1919, in said county, the above-named defendants did commit the crime of maintaining an unlicensed ferry, committed as follows, to wit: that at said time and place the said Joe Leach and William Friesham, then and there being, did wilfully and unlawfully maintain and operate a ferry boat for profit and hire upon the waters of Missouri river, and did then and there transport and carry passengers,…