H. H. Lewis v. Nero Nelson

WHITFIELD, C. J. -- Nero Nelson procured a writ of habeas corpus from the Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit upon allegations that he was unlawfully detained by the Sheriff of Jackson County by virtue of a warrant issued by a Justice of the Peace charging the petitioner with ""feloniously devising and intending to injure and defraud the Geneva Lumber Company, a corporation, did by false promise to perfrom labor for said corporation, and with intent to injure and defraud said corporation, obtain from said corporation the sum of fifteen dollars lawful money, by then and there falsely promising to begin work for said corporation on the 2nd day of June, A.D. 1911, and to continue to work for said corporation until said sum of fifteen dollars was repaid in full; which said promises were wholly false and untrue and were known to be false and untrue by the said Nero Nelson at the time they were made.""