In re Berger

The above two causes are identically the same except the names of the persons on whose behalf the writs of habeas corpus are sued out, and the numbers of the cases. They will therefore be considered and determined as one case, as the same facts and principles of law are common to both.

On the 15th day of December, 1911, each of the petitioners above named, Saul Berger and William Skahn, were arrested upon warrants issued by James S. Myers, a justice of the peace of Cincinnati township, based upon affidavits charging each of them with a violation of Section 12943 of the General Code of Ohio, in…