Laney v. State Ex Rel. Farrior

This case comes here on writ of error from a judgment of peremptory writ in mandamus proceedings in favor of the Sheriff of Washington County against the County Commissioners of Washington County requiring the County Commissioners to pay to the Sheriff certain items of cost.

Amie May Harris was convicted in the County Judge’s Court of Washington County and was sentenced to pay the cost of prosecution ox*, in default thereof, to be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of four months. She immediately procured the execution and delivery to the sheriff of a bond comixxonly known as a "fine…