Lee v. Board of Supervisors

Relator was allowed to take an order on-respondents to show cause why they should not allow him certain fees for alleged services for which they refused to-give him what he claimed. Upon the return it appears that every item charged and not allowed was a charge for commitment or discharge from jail, and was made under the statute fixing sheriff’s fees in criminal cases, which allows “for every person committed to jail, 35 cents; for every person discharged from jail, 35 cents; for taking a prisoner before a-*331court for examination or to jail, 15 cents.” The supervisors allowed these rates of 35…