Bailey v. Fulton County

The petition of Henry Bailey set forth that, for some alleged violation of the municipal ordinances of the city of College Park, he ivas sentenced by the mayor to serve á term of six months in the county chain-gang of Fulton county; that after the imposition of this sentence, which was wholly unauthorized by law, the marshal óf that city delivered the plaintiff into the custody of the superintendent of the chain-gang, W'ho confined and kept the plaintiff at work thereon for a period of more than five months; and that “the acts and doings of said superintendent in thus confining this…