Fite v. State, ex rel. Snider
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Second Circuit Court' of Shelby County. — J. S. Galloway, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice M’Alister
The question involved in this case’is in respect to the constitutionality of a certain provision of the workhouse law embodied in Shannon’s Code, section 7423, namely: “The board of commissioners may on recommendation of the superintendent, deduct, for good conduct, a portion of the time for which any person has been sentenced, or a portion of the fine, if he or she be working out a fine.”
The subject-matter of the inquiry arises on the petition of one Nick Snider, prisoner in the county workhouse of Shelby county, for the writ of habeas corpus to be discharged from said confinement upon the…
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