Ex Parte Cook

DAVIDSON, Judge.

In January, 1911, relator was convicted in the Justice Court of Shelby County for failing to work on a public road, his punishment being assessed at a fine of $3 and costs. He. was allowed to go at large for about a year and a half when he was arrested and placed in jail under a” capias profine to satisfy the judgment. On this showing the district judge under a writ of habeas corpus remanded relator to custody. From this he appeals, urging that the judgment assessing the fine of $3 and costs had become dormant because not executed forthwith, and that since the judgment had not…