Ex parte Davis

This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus. Petitioner was convicted, in the justice’s court of Tonopah township of a misdemeanor, to wit, carrying a concealed weapon, committed on the 4th day of April, 1910. Upon appeal to the district court in and for Nye County, a trial was had de novo, and judgment of conviction again entered against him, and a fine imposed for such offense of $100, and that, in default of payment of said fine, he be imprisoned in the county jail of Nye County one day for each $2 of said fine. At the conclusion of the trial in the district court, the court sitting…