Case ID: app-dc_34/html/0019-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Van Orsdel", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ZINKHAM v. LINAWEAVER.
    Juvenile Court.
    
      United States v. West, ante, 12, applied and followed.
    No. 2062.
    Submitted October 14, 1909.
    Decided November 2, 1909.
    Hearing oil an appeal by the respondent to a petition for the writ of habeas corpus, from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia discharging the relator.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    
      Mr. Daniel W. Baker, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Mr. Edward H. Thomas, Corporation Counsel, and Mr. F. Sprigg Perry, Assistant United States Attorney, for the appellant.
    
      Mr. W. A. Coomhe for the appellee.
   Mr. Justice Van Orsdel

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal by Louis E. Zinkham, superintendent of the workhouse for the District of Columbia, from an order of the supreme court of the District' of Columbia discharging appellee, Otto Linaweaver, upon a writ of habeas corpus. Appellee, at the time of his release, was confined in the workhouse of the District under a sentence of the juvenile court for failure to support his wife and minor child. The decision of this court in the case of United States v. West, ante, 12,. present term, disposes fully of this appeal.

The judgment is affirmed with costs, and it is so ordered.

Affirmed.