Reese v. Olsen

The petitioner, on a writ of habeas corpus, seeks to be discharged from imprisonment in the county jail of Box Elder County. It is alleged that he is there, by the sheriff of that county, unlawfully imprisoned. The sheriff holds him on a commitment based on a judgment rendered by the district court on March 10, 1914. The judgment is:

“It is the judgment of this court and the sentence of the law that you, Robert Reese, having been convicted of the crime of a misdemeanor, to wit, selling intoxicating liquors, be punished therefor by imprisonment in the county jail at Brigham City, Box Elder…