State ex rel. Van Orden v. Sauvinet

Taliaferro, J.

The relator complains that he is under illegal .surest and hold in custody by the civil sheriff of the parish of Orleans in obedience to an order rendered by the judge of the Sixth District Court-of the parish of Orleans, on the sixth of March, 1872, sentencing him to arrest and to be held in custody by the sheriff for the term of ten days for an alleged contempt of the orders of the said court. He alleges that for the offense charged against him, and for which he was sentenced as aforesaid, and tinder pretense of which he is now under arrest and deprived of his liberty, he has…