State ex rel. Falconer v. Eberstein

Edward Falconer, the relator, filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court for Douglas county, alleging unlawful restraint of liberty under a warrant issued by the governor of this state, pursuant to a requisition issued by the governor of Iowa. The writ was denied and the relator prosecutes error.

It seems that, a few days before this proceeding was commenced, relator was arrested in Omaha on the oral request of respondent, who is the sheriff of Pottawattamie county, Iowa, and was confined in the Omafia jail. Subsequently he was admitted to bail in the sum of $500.…