Ex parte Watson
West Virginia Supreme Court
Habeas corpus by James Watson against S. A. Daniel, sheriff.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEENBARGEE, PRESIDENT :
James Watson who is in the custody of the sheriff and jailer of McDowell County, under a jail sentence of sixty days, imposed by the mayor of the Town of Welch, acting as a justice of the peace ex officio of said county, for the offense of idleness or vagrancy, created by provisions of chapter 12 of the Acts of the Second Extraordinary Session of the legislature of 1917, seeks liberation from such custody by a writ of ¡habeas corpus, on the ground of alleged lack of jurisdiction in the mayor of the town of Welch, to impose the sentence under which he is confined, the…
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