Ex parte Davis
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from a judgment rendered by Hon. W. J. Hilliard, judge of probate of Bike county, refusing to discharge the appellant, Jack Davis, from the custody of the sheriff of said county, who held him under a mittimus issued by a justice of the peace, “on a charge of violating a criminal contract,” as the offense was described in the mittimus. cited Boynton v. State, 77 Ala. 29; Taylor v. Woods, 52 Ala. 474; Horton v. Elliott, 90 Ala. 480; Smith v. State, 81 Ala. 74; Smith v.…
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Appeal from a judgment rendered by Hon. W. J. Hilliard, judge of probate of Bike county, refusing to discharge the appellant, Jack Davis, from the custody of the sheriff of said county, who held him under a mittimus issued by a justice of the peace, “on a charge of violating a criminal contract,” as the offense was described in the mittimus. cited Boynton v. State, 77 Ala. 29; Taylor v. Woods, 52 Ala. 474; Horton v. Elliott, 90 Ala. 480; Smith v. State, 81 Ala. 74; Smith v. State, 82 Ala. 40; Wynn v. State, 82 Ala. 55; 51 Ala. 34; Code, §§ 4288, 3832, 4255, 4289.
1Opinion of the CourtThobington, J.
The petitioner was tried before a justice of the peace in Pike county, on a charge of violating a written contract alleged to have been entered into by him pursuant to the provisions of section 3832 of the Criminal Code, and on preliminary investigation before a justice of the peace was committed to jail to answer the charge in the Circuit Court oí said county,
*10An application for a writ of habeas corpus was made by the petitioner to tlie judge of probate of said county, based on tire ground that tlie contract which the petitioner was charged with having violated was not made and entered into…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Evans v. EnglishSupreme Court of Alabama · 1878
- Ex parte McKivettSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
- Durfee v. GrinnellIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
- Ex parte StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1888
- Clark v. M'CommanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1844
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Ex parte BizzellSupreme Court of Alabama · 1895
- Rainey v. RidgewaySupreme Court of Alabama · 1907
- Edmunds v. State, ex rel. DedgeSupreme Court of Alabama · 1917
- Cotton v. HollowaySupreme Court of Alabama · 1893
- H. H. Hitt Lumber Co. v. TurnerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1914
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