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Wis. Stat. § 782.14

Return, what to state

1979 c. 32 s. 59; 1979 c. 176; Stats. 1979 s. 782.14.

The respondent shall state in the return:

(1) Whether the prisoner is in the respondent’s custody or power.

(2) If the prisoner is in the respondent’s custody or power the authority and true cause of such imprisonment, setting forth the same at large.

(3) If the prisoner be detained by virtue of any written authority a copy thereof shall be annexed to the return and the original HABEAS CORPUS 782.273 shall be produced to the court or judge before whom the same is returnable.

(4) If the respondent shall have had the prisoner in the respondent’s power or custody at any time, but has transferred such custody to another, the return shall state particularly to whom, at what time, for what cause and by what authority such transfer took place. The return must be signed by the person making it and shall be verified by oath.

Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.