Ex parte Jackson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
CERTIORARI to Pulaski Chancery Court. Hon. D. W. Carroll, Chancellor. Sec. 1637, Gantts Digest, is a dead letter, as it is not in the power of the legislature to declare in a few generalities what shall be a crime.
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CERTIORARI to Pulaski Chancery Court. Hon. D. W. Carroll, Chancellor. Sec. 1637, Gantts Digest, is a dead letter, as it is not in the power of the legislature to declare in a few generalities what shall be a crime. The affidavit charges no offense known to the law. 1 Ark., 178,179; 33 Id., 361; Gantts Dig., Sec. 1796, stib. 2. It is not sufficient to charge petitioner with willfully failing to provide for his helpless child, or as a husband, failing to provide for a helpless wife. 2 Whart. Cr. La w, Secs. 2308-9-10-11—12. Nor illeghl cohabitation with Dolly Hare. 36 Ark., 39; lb., 84. . First…
1Opinion of the Court
Eakin,' J.
On the 19th of June, 1885, Andrew Jackson presented to this court a petition, stating: That he was illegally restrained of his liberty by the sheriff of Pulaski county, and incarcerated in the jail; and that he would be confined upon a farm of said sheriff, used for working prisoners convicted of misdemeanors.
He shows that in March last, he was taken to jail under a commitment from A. Walrath, Esq., a justice of the peace., which described his offense as one “against public morals.” From this imprisonment he was discharged by the Honorable Chancellor of the Pulaski chancery court.
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