Legal Opinion

Walker v. Lea

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Mississippi

Decided September 30, 1891PublishedCited by 6 opinions

At Law. Application for writ of habeas corpus. On appeal from the decision of tho district judge.

1Opinion of the Court

Lamar, Justice.

This was an application for a writ of habeas corpus, addressed to the district judge by Olem Lea, a deputy United States marshal for the western district of Tennessee, and a citizen of that stato, alleging that he was unjustly and unlawfully deprived of his personal liberty, by being imprisoned in tho county jail of Alcorn county, Miss., at Corinth, by J. P. Walker, sheriff’ of that county, for the non-payment of a certain fine and costs assessed against him by the circuit court of said Alcorn oouuty, on the charge of carrying concealed weapons, contrary to the laws of the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Toland v. SpragueSupreme Court of the United States · 1838
  2. Ex parte GrahamU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania · 1818
  3. Day v. Newark India-Rubber Manuf'g Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1850

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Gay v. RuffSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
  2. Piggly Wiggly Corporation v. SaundersDistrict Court, W.D. Tennessee · 1924
  3. Guarantee Trust & Safe-Deposit Co. v. Delta & Pine-Land Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1900
  4. Ford v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
  5. Ford v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984

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