Court of Appeals of Kansas December 3, 1896, No. 497 (Stevens v. Moore)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garver, J. :

The plaintiff in error, Mary Stevens, sought, by a proceeding in habeas corpus instituted be*758fore Hon. A. W. Benson, judge of tlie district court of Douglas county, to be discharged from an alleged illegal imprisonment enforced by the defendant in error, John C. Moore, as sheriff of said county.