Sherry v. Winton

Blackford, J. —

On the 19th of May, 1848, a writ oíhabeas corpus was issued by the clerk of the Tippecanoe Circuit Court, on the order of the Hon. John Peters, an associate judge of that Court. The writ commanded one Matthew H. Winton, sheriff of Tippecanoe county, that he should have the body of John Sherry, being imprisoned, &c., with the time and cause of his imprisonment, before *97said judge, to do and receive what should then and there be adjudged, &c.

On the next day after the habeas corpus issued, the same was returned by the sheriff. The return states, that the sheriff held Sherry in…