Fowler v. Grimes

Bell, Chief Justice.

Walter Fowler filed an application for the writ of habeas corpus against J. M. Mount as sheriff of Fulton County. The case as made by his amended application and the response was tried before Honorable Hugh M. Dorsey, one of the judges of Fulton superior court, who, after hearing evidence from both sides, denied the writ and remanded the applicant to custody. To this judgment the applicant excepted. After the case reached this court, the death of J. M. Mount, the defendant in error, was suggested, and T. B. Grimes, his successor as sheriff, was by consent made defendant in…