Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Shockley
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided December 14, 1926No. 13692PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WESTENHAVER, District Judge.
This petition was filed by William T. Shockley for a writ of babeas corpus, directed to Fred Kohler, sheriff of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, asking petitioner’s release from imprisonment. An answer was filed to the alternative writ, disclosing that the petitioner was held under authority of an order of the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county, committing him as for a contempt for refusing to obey an order of that court. At this hearing, no one appeared for the respondent to support the lawfulness of such order, although the comity prosecutor, who appeared and filed…
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