Legal Opinion
Fanning v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 2, 1934No. 3669PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.
J. C. Panning, sheriff of Mercer county, W. Va., was found guilty of contempt of court, and sentenced to- four months imprisonment in the federal correctional camp at Lee Hall, Va., by the judge of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, on February 22,1934. Prom that judgment, he prosecutes this appeal.
The proceeding for contempt against Panning was based on the escape of two federal prisoners from the Mercer county jail, of which jail Panning, as sheriff of Mercer county, was the keeper. At the June term, 1933, of said…
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