Legal Opinion

Ex parte Shores

District Court, N.D. Iowa

Decided April 23, 1912No. 4,146PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Application to punish F. M. Shores, Sheriff of Blackhawk County, Iowa, for contempt of court.

1Opinion of the Court

REED, District Judge.

The United States attorney has filed an application supported by affidavits for an order or rule upon Ei M. Shores, as sheriff of Blackhawk county, this state, and keeper of the common jail of that county, to show cause why he should not be punished as for contempt in not detaining in said jail a prisoner convicted, sentenced, and committed thereto by this court for a violation of a law of the United States. The order or rule was granted,'and a copy of the application with the accompanying affidavits served upon the sheriff, who will be called the defendant, and he has…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Randolph v. DonaldsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1815
  2. State v. DavisNevada Supreme Court · 1880
  3. In re BirdsongDistrict Court, S.D. Georgia · 1889
  4. Clap v. CofranMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1813
  5. Servis v. MarshU.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1889

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Henderson v. DudleySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1978
  2. James E. McCall v. C. L. Swain, Superintendent, Lorton ReformatoryCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
  3. United States v. HoffmanDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1925
  4. County of Los Angeles v. ClineCalifornia Supreme Court · 1921
  5. Wilson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1928

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