24 Kan. 757 | Kan. | 1881
We do not think the petitioners are entitled to their discharge, because, from the return of the sheriff of Davis county, it appears that they are in his custody by virtue of process issued on a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. (Ex parte Nye, 8 Kas. 99.)
If the first commitment is in any way defective, in failing to refer to an offense over which the justice had jurisdiction, the second commitment is clearly sufficient. While it does not state that the offense was committed in Dickinson county, it refers very fully to the offense of which the petitioners were convicted, and as it nowhere shows that the justice did not have jurisdiction, but affirmatively does show that the offense