This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol10 Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wills, Administration", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
But where a warrant appears to be regular on its face it will protect the officer who makes an arrest with it, though issued on a void complaint conferring no jurisdiction on the court.20
15 Housh vs. People, 75 HI., 491;
State vs. Leach, 7 Conn., 452;
State vs. Gleason, 32 Kan., 245. 16 Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 2655;
Rafferty vs. People, 72 Ill., 40;
Ballard vs. State, 43 Ohio St., 340. 17 Rafferty vs. People, 69 Ill., 116;
Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 2632. 18 Shanley vs. Wells, 71 Ill., 78. 19 Housh vs. People, 71 Ill., 491.
 
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