Ainsworth v. State

- This was a proceeding against the appellant •for contempt.

On the 17th day of March, 1875, James Shannon, charged with larceny, was ordered by the criminal court to be committed to the house of refuge until he attained the age of twenty-one years, unless sooner discharged by the board of commissioners of the institution. On the 29th day of March, 1875, an affidavit was filed in said court, of Alfred Travis, a deputy sheriff of Marion county, that on the 20th day of March, 1875, he tendered the said Shannon, with a certified *563copy of the order of commitment to the appellant, as superintendent…