Hutcheson v. Manson

John B. Hutcheson-brought a petition for mandamus against Z. T. Manson, as ordinary of Clayton County. The petition alleged, that during the year 1905 the-petitioner held the office of solicitor of the city court of Jonesboro, and during that year, in the discharge of his official duties, prosecuted to conviction, for misdemeanors, four named persons, and they were all sentenced by the court to work in prison or on the chain-gang, the terms for which they were, respectively, sentenced being stated; that each of these convicts was hired out by the defendant ordinary for the full term for which…