Ex parte Crews
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was an application by petition, in the name of Aleck Crews, for the writs of certiorari and habeas corpus, to procure his discharge from the custody of -M. L. Passmore, deputy-sheriff and jailer of Barbour county, who held him under a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court of said county on the 3d December, 1885. The application for a discharge on habeas corpus was first addressed to lion.
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This was an application by petition, in the name of Aleck Crews, for the writs of certiorari and habeas corpus, to procure his discharge from the custody of -M. L. Passmore, deputy-sheriff and jailer of Barbour county, who held him under a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court of said county on the 3d December, 1885. The application for a discharge on habeas corpus was first addressed to lion. John A. Poster, chancellor, who, on the hearing, on December 26th, 1885, refused to discharge the petitioner; and a copy of the proceedings then had, with the chancellor’s judgment refusing a…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
By act approved February 22d, 1883, § 5, Sess. Acts, 135, it was declared to be “unlawful for the hirers of convicts to work together, or confine in the same room or apartment, any convict who has been sentenced for the commission of a misdemeanor with a convict sentenced for the commission of a felony; . . . All persons convicted' of misdemeanors shall be employed or hired in the county where convicted, unless, in the opinion of the persons or body *460having charge of the hiring of such persons, the' interest of the county requires that they be hired outside of the county.”
The act approved…
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