In Re Speer

April 7, 1933, J. Howard Speer, petitioner, was, by a justice of the peace in and for Jerome precinct, Jerome county, on preliminary examination, held to answer in district court to the charge of having sold, on said date in said county, two bottles of liquor, commonly called near beer, for beverage purposes. He was remanded to the custody of the sheriff, and has procured to be issued from this court a writ of habeas corpus for the purpose of having the legality of his detention in custody determined. A transcript of the evidence taken by the committing magistrate is before us and shows…