Ex parte Buckalew

The right to a discharge is founded on the following facts: The petitioner Buckalew, having been convicted, in July, 1887, of assault and battery, and sentenced to hard labor for the county for a definite number of days, was turned over to Trammell, who had made a contract with the court of county commissioners for the hire of county convicts, in pursuance of an order of the court made in December, 1885, which is as follows: “It is ordered that the county convicts for a term of three years from the first of January, 1886, be let to B. J. Trammell at the rate of nine dollars each per month,…