Nebraska Revised Statutes Chapter 29. Criminal Procedure § 29-2815. Applicant in custody of person not an officer; form of writ

In case of confinement, imprisonment, or detention by any person not a sheriff, deputy sheriff, coroner, jailer, or marshal of this state, nor a marshal or other like officer of the courts of the United States, the writ of habeas corpus shall be in the form following:

The State of Nebraska,

The People of the State of Nebraska to the Sheriff of such county, greeting:

We command you, that the body of __________, of __________, by _______________ of __________ imprisoned and restrained of his or her liberty, as it is said, you take and have before ____________, a judge of our ____________ court ____________, or, in case of his or her absence or disability, before some other judge of the same court at ____________, to do and receive what our judge shall then and there consider __________ concerning him or her in his or her behalf, and summon __________ then and there to appear before our judge to show the cause of the taking and detaining __________; and have you there this writ, with your doings thereon.

Witness ____________, at ____________, this __________ day of ____________, in the year ____.