Ex parte Amos

Ernest Amos, who is Comptroller of the State, was arrested and taken into custody of the sheriff of Leon County under a warrant issuing out of the Circuit Court for Palm Beach County. The warrant commanded all and singular the sheriffs of the State of Florida to take "Ernest Amos if he be found in your county, arrest and safely keep so that you have his body before the Judge of our Criminal Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, at the Court House in West Palm Beach, to answer unto the State of Florida on an indictment against him by the Grand Jurors for the county…