Cooper v. Lipscomb

This writ of error was allowed to an order in habeas corpus proceedings, which sustained the respondent sheriff’s demurrer to the petition for the writ and dismissed the petition at the cost of the petitioner. The writ which had been issued was not quashed or mentioned expressly or referred to in any way, in the order. The petitioner alleged that he was held by the sheriff by virtue of a warrant issued by the County Judge of Charlotte County based upon an affidavit, which affidavit charged that the petitioner, J. G. Cooper, in the County of Charlotte, “did unlawfully have a gun in a breeding…