Ex parte Kair
Nevada Supreme Court
Application by Peter Kair for habeas corpus to secure his release from the county jail of Lyon County, where he was committed for a violation of ' Stats. 1903, p. 33, c. 10. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. Admissibility of evidence: In general the court may hear testimony and evidence .to determine whether the prisoner should be remanded, held to bail, or discharged from custody.
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Application by Peter Kair for habeas corpus to secure his release from the county jail of Lyon County, where he was committed for a violation of ' Stats. 1903, p. 33, c. 10. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. Admissibility of evidence: In general the court may hear testimony and evidence .to determine whether the prisoner should be remanded, held to bail, or discharged from custody. (Vol. 9, Ency. of PI. & Pr., p. 1052, and authorities cited.) Evidence may be received to show want of probable cause to hold the prisoner. (Id., p. 1053.) Comp. Laws, 3764, says: "If it shall appear…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Talbot, J.:
In the justice court at Dayton, petitioner was convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of $100, or serve an alternative of one day for every $2 thereof in the county jail, on a charge of misdemeanor, for working more than eight hours in one day in a wet-crushing quartz-mill, contrary to the provisions of the act approved February 23,1903, by the terms of which the period of employment of working men in underground mines, smelters, and "all institutions for the reduction or refining of ores or metals,” is limited to eight hours per day, under penalty which specifies a…
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