Walberg v. State

The writs of error in these cases are directed to the orders denying the defendants’ motions for postconviction relief. By those motions each defendant has asserted that the person who signed the arrest warrants, under the authority of which they were brought before the court on the stated charges, had no authority to do so. They seek relief in the form of an order vacating the judgments of conviction on the ground that probable cause for the issuance of those warrants was not found by a “neutral and detached magistrate” as required by the Fourth Amendment.

The record in the case involving the…