State ex rel. Hallanan v. Cyrus

Lynch, Judge:

In default of an appearance in person or by counsel to respond to the alternative mandate of the preliminary writ either to do the things he was commanded to do or show cause for not doing them, the charges preferred by the petition and recited in the alternative writ must be taken and accepted as true. They make plain a total and inexcusable disregard of the duties imposed by law upon sheriffs as ex officio jailers of their counties to keep literally in jail persons sentenced to confinement therein, except ivhen at labor under some statute authorizing their employment at work as…