Ex Parte mrs.C. S. Carson

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Mrs. Carson and Mrs. Jordan lived in adjoining houses but the evidence indicates that they were not neighborly. In August, 1944 Mrs. Jordan filed with a justice of the peace an affidavit seeking to have Mrs. Carson put under a peace bond. Officers were called and investigated the circumstances upon which the affidavit was predicated, but made no arrest. The magistrate had no trial upon such affidavit until in May, 1945. Nine months had elapsed during which time Mrs. Carson was under no restraint so far as any peace bond would have effected. Upon the trial in May,…