State v. Morgan

Citations

• 114 Miss. 634
• 75 So. 441

Syllabus

<p>Habeas Corpus. Scope of inquiry. Guilt or innocence.</p> <p>Where a party was arrested under a warrant returnable before a justice of the peace and before the trial before such justice, sued out a writ of habeas corpus, on the trial of such writ the guilt or innocence of the relator was not material and should not have been inquired into by the court; that question beijig for the determination of the justice of the peace before whom the warrant upon which the relator was arrested was returnable.</p>