Scott v. Chichester

George Scott, alias Dinkey Scott, filed a petition in the corporation court of the city of Eredericksburg, complaining that *934he was unlawfully detained in the custody of J. G. Chichester, sergeant of said city, and praying for a writ of habeas corpus from that court, which was awarded; and upon the answer of the sergeant being filed, the court refused to discharge the prisoner and remanded him to the custody of the sergeant. To that judgment this writ of error was awarded.

From the answer of the sergeant of the city of Fredericksburg it appears, that on the 21st day of hfarch, 1907, the…