City of Lyons v. Wellman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Martin, C. J.: The defendant, a resident of Topeka, Kan., was in the city of Lyons November 4, 1894, and for two or three days thereafter, when he returned to Topeka. About two weeks afterward a subpoena, in a criminal case pending before a justice of the peace at Lyons, was served upon him at. Topeka, and in obedience thereto he went to Lyons to testify as a -witness. Soon after his arrival there he was arrested on a warrant from the police judge charging him with being drunk in a street of the city of Lyons on November 4/1894, such being an offense…