Legal Opinion
Ex parte Miles
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided August 11, 1966No. 24585PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN HABEAS CORPUS
BLAIR, Judge.
This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus by which the petitioner, John Sherman Miles, seeks to be discharged from the custody of Arvid Owsley, Sheriff of Jackson County, who restrains him of his liberty by virtue of a commitment for contempt entered against him by the Circuit Court of Jackson County on a charge and judgment that Miles attempted to tamper with a juror and thereby to interfere with the administration of justice. The circuit court sentenced him to confinement in the county jail for 12 months and to pay a fine of $1,000.00.…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- In re ClarkSupreme Court of Missouri · 1907
- State v. RamseySupreme Court of Missouri · 1963
- Ex parte CreasySupreme Court of Missouri · 1912
- Osborne v. PurdomeSupreme Court of Missouri · 1951
- State v. JonesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1953
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3Cited by4 opinions
- State Ex Rel. Girard v. PercichMissouri Court of Appeals · 1977
- Ex parte Ramsey v. GraylandMissouri Court of Appeals · 1978
- Ex parte Vokolek v. CarnesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1974
- Reeves v. MorelandMissouri Court of Appeals · 1979