Dixon v. Rowland

The appellee was in the custody of the appellant, who is the sheriff of Benton county, under a conviction for having intoxicating liquor in possession, and was discharged from custody on a writ of habeas corpus by the chancellor of the district in which Benton county is situated. The sheriff has brought the case to this court.

The ground on which the appellee sought and was granted relief in the court below is that the justice of the peace who rendered the judgment on which he was in custody was without authority to render it because of his relationship to a person interested therein.

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