Owens v. Dancy

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order discharging the writ of habeas corpus after final hearing, which had been sued out by appellant to obtain release from custody of the sheriff of Oklahoma County. Appellant was held by the sheriff under judgment of the supreme court of Oklahoma, which found him guilty of contempt of that court and adjudged that he be both fined and imprisoned therefor, the imprisonment to be in the county jail of said county.

The contemptuous conduct occurred in litigation begun in the State district courts and which by appeal was taken to the supreme eourt.…