State ex rel Billman v. Hamilton

This was an action brought by the relatrix, Louisa Billman, against the - appellee, as sheriff of Ripley county, for permitting an escape. The complaint was in-two paragraphs. The substantial allegations in the complaint are, that the relatrix, on the — day of August, 1867, obtained a judgment, in the- Ripley Circuit Court, against Stephen Volty, in a prosecution for bastardy, for the sum of four hundred dollars and the costs- of the prosecution; that the court ordered that the defendant should pay or' replevy the said judgment; that upon failure so to do, he should be committed to the jail…