Ex parte Parker

This ease was submitted to the court chiefly upon the question of jurisdiction in the committing magistrate. The case was heard upon the evidence taken before him, no application for additional testimony being made by either party, and the magistrate having returned and certified all the testimony taken before him.

Does this testimony establish prima fade the guilt of the petitioners, or either of them, of the offense charged within the county of Douglas ?

The offense with which the petitioners are charged is set out in the statute in the following words :

“ If any person, by false pretense or…