Woolen v. State ex rel. Portis

This is an action in the name of the State of Tennessee, on relation of Portis, sheriff and jailor of Tipton county, against the comptroller of the State, seeking the grant of a writ of mandamus to compel the issuance of a warrant on the treasury for a sum alleged to he due from the State for the hoard of certain prisoners in the county jail, who were convicted of felonies, hut whose sentences had been commuted by trial juries to imprisonment in jail from imprisonment in the State penitentiary.

The comptroller ánswered, denying liability on the part of the State to the jailor for such hoard,…