Glenn, Workhouse Keeper v. Porter

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Fulton

Reversing.

This is an appeal pursuant to section 429-1 of the Criminal Code of Practice, as added by Acts 1940, c. 93, from an order of the Judge of the Franklin County ■Court, in a habeas corpus proceeding, discharging the appellee from the workhouse of the City of Frankfort.

Appellant, in response to the writ, set up the following state of facts as his authority for the detention and confinement. On March 6, 1939, appellee was convicted in the Frankfort police court of the offense of being drunk in a public place and his punishment fixed at a fine of…