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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 750
    YANUKENAS v. KOHLER, Sheriff
    No. 19945.
    Supreme Court
    On motion to certify.
    Dock. June 30, 1926;
    4 Abs. 475.
    685. JUSTICE OF PEACE — Upon non-payment of a fine for illegal possession of apparatus for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor may the Justice of Peace order imprisonment in the county jail, or in the county workhouse only?
    Attorneys — J. H. Mellen and Louis Barnes, for Yanukenas; E. C. Stanton and H. E. Parsons for Kohler; all of Cleveland.
   Anthony Yanukenas was arrested and convicted by the Justice of the Peace for Rocky River Township, Cuyahoga County, on the charge of possession of apparatus for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor. Upon default in payment of the fine the order provided that the accused be imprisoned in the Cuyahoga County jail.

The judgment of the Common Pleas in dismissing the petition of Yanukenas was affirmed by the Court of Appeals on the theory that the Justice of the Peace had authority to confine the accused in the county jail.

Yanukenas in the Supreme Court contends:

1. That the Justice of the Peace had no authority to' confine him in the county jail.

2. That he could be committed only to the workhouse in Cuyahoga county.