State ex rel. Karr v. Taxing District of Shelby County

The relator, L. Karr, was tried by the president of the board of fire and police commissioners of the Taxing District of Shelby county for a violation of the ordinances of the Taxing District, found guilty, and failing to pay the -fine and costs, amounting to fifty dollars, was committed to the work-house district prison to be kept at labor, as directed by the ordinance of the district, for two hundred days, unless the fine should be sooner paid, or he be delivered according to law. Thereupon, the relator presented a petition to the judge of the criminal court of Shelby county for a writ of…