State ex rel. Brewster v. Piper

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The state asks for writs of mandamus directing the sheriff of Sherman county to execute three commitments against William Hartstine, John H. Denny and J. H. Jarrett, and to confine them in jail for a period of thirty days. These three men had violated the prohibitory law and were prosecuted before a justice of the peace at Kanorado, in State Line township in Sherman county. They pleaded guilty, and each of them was sentenced to jail for 30 days and to pay fines of $100 and costs of prosecution. Three days later these men paid their several…