Rogers v. State

In this case there was a conviction of assault and battery, with sentence of $50 fine and six months imprisonment in the workhouse. The imprisonment was suspended until the next term after the final judgment. While thus suspended, the defendant never having been sent to the workhouse, *426the Commissioners of the Workhouse made an order releasing and discharging him.

The workhouse law, as it is called, provides that the Commissioners may discharge any prisoner when satisfied, from the certificate of the physician, in charge, that he or she is physically unable to do labor, or for any cause, when…