Legal Opinion

Ex parte Dig

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1905PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Eeom the chancery court of Tunica county. How. PERCY Bell, Chancellor. Dig, the appellant, applied to the chancellor for a writ of habeas corpus; the writ was, upon a hearing on the merits,, denied, and the relator remanded to> custody, from which judgment he appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

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Eeom the chancery court of Tunica county. How. PERCY Bell, Chancellor. Dig, the appellant, applied to the chancellor for a writ of habeas corpus; the writ was, upon a hearing on the merits,, denied, and the relator remanded to> custody, from which judgment he appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Our supreme court, in Ex parte William Meyer, 57 Miss., 85, in an opinion delivered by Judge Chalmers, forever set at rest any contention as to what kind of debts come within the class provided in sec. 30 of the state constitution. Mark the language of the…

1Opinion of the CourtTkuly, J.

Upon an application for habeas corpus, relator was remanded to custody by the chancellor. The agreed statement :of facts *599shows that relator was tried and convicted before a court of competent jurisdiction upon a charge of assault, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for a term of ninety days, and, in addition thereto, to pay a fine of fifty dollars, and ■costs of the prosecution, amounting to sixteen dollars and forty cents; that in default thereof relator was committed to j ail under a duly issued mittimus, and the mittimus and jail fees amounted to two dollars; that, upon…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Ex parte BridgforthMississippi Supreme Court · 1899
  2. Ex parte MeyerMississippi Supreme Court · 1879

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Payne v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984
  2. Ex parte McInnisMississippi Supreme Court · 1910
  3. In re NicholsMississippi Supreme Court · 1999
  4. Boyer v. State Ex Rel. HalyburtonOhio Supreme Court · 1928
  5. Ex Parte JacksonMississippi Supreme Court · 1937

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