County of Schuylkill v. Reifsnyder
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Schuyllcill county. This was an amicable action between the County of Schuylkill and Washington Reifsnyder, keeper of the jail of the county, in which the following facts were stated for the opinion of the court “ At a Court of Oyer and Terminer, held at Pottsville, in and for the said county, on the 15th day of December 1859, one Francis Deibert was sentenced, after a conviction of manslaughter, to pay a fine of six cents to the Commonwealth,…
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Error to the Common Pleas of Schuyllcill county. This was an amicable action between the County of Schuylkill and Washington Reifsnyder, keeper of the jail of the county, in which the following facts were stated for the opinion of the court “ At a Court of Oyer and Terminer, held at Pottsville, in and for the said county, on the 15th day of December 1859, one Francis Deibert was sentenced, after a conviction of manslaughter, to pay a fine of six cents to the Commonwealth, the costs of prosecution, and undergo an imprisonment in the Schuylkill county prison, in separate and solitary…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, February 1st 1864, by
Agnew, J.
The facts in the stated case raise a single question, whether the keeper of the county prison could discharge a prisoner convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and to pay a fine of six cents and the costs of prosecution, and to stand committed until the sentence be complied with, on the delivery of a pardon, and without the consent of the county commissioners, or any of the parties entitled to the costs.
The court entered judgment for the defendant upon the stated case, in effect deciding that…
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