State ex rel. Distin v. Ensign

On the twenty-seventh day of May, 1882, the relator filed a petition in the county court of Lancaster county alleging that he was illegally restrained of his liberty by the defendant. The court thereupon issued a writ of habeas corpus, to which the defendant made return that he held the relator by virtue of a mittimus issued -by the county judge of Webster county, in which mittimus it was stated that “said John Distin had been examined by said judge on a charge of horse-stealing in said Webster county, and that said judge found that there was probable cause for holding said John Distin to…