Ex parte Tuicher
Supreme Court of Iowa
Habeas ooepus. The petitioner for the writ was convicted under the statutes prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors, fined, and committed to the jail of Sac county until the fine and costs should be paid. A writ of habeas corpus was granted by one of the justices of this court for the purpose of determining the legality of such imprisonment.
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.
i. criminal . íirisbnmehtm' form of lucísment: Code, c-itiou:toPpU' liquor cases, The judgment of the court was rendered on the twenty-second day of February, 1885, and on that day the petitioner was committed to jail, and ho remained therein until the twenty-first day of May, 1885, when the writ was granted, being a Pei'i°d of eiglity-eight days. The amount of the fine' was seventy-five dollars, and the costs were less than twenty dollars. Section 4509 of the Code is in *394these words: “A judgment that the defendant pay a fino may also direct that he be imprisoned until the fine be satisfied,…
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