State ex rel. Abrahamson v. Bates
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by relator from an order of the district court for St. Louis county, Dibell, J., discharging a writ of habeas corpus and remanding relator to the custody of respondent as sheriff of that county.
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
The relator was convicted on October 23, 1908, in the municipal court of Duluth, of the offense of selling malt-liquor without a license, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and costs, and upon default of payment thereof to be committed to the county jail, in the custody of the sheriff, for a period not to exceed ninety days. He sued out a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground' that the imprisonment was illegal and void, because the municipal court had no jurisdiction *56of the trial of the case. On hearing, the writ of habeas corpus was discharged, and relator remanded to the custody of the…
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- State ex rel. Bahr v. BatesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
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