The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-09-28
Rule for Contempt Of Court.

DlSlrlCC ACCOTucy EuIHAcI HIS HlcO
the following rule upon Sheriff Dink-
grave for alleged contempt of Court.
Upon a trial of exceptions to dismiss
the rule, Judge Ray overrulcd the eX-
and the case is fixed for next
Tuesday. Messrs. Richardson's & Nc
Emery, and w. J. @. Baker, ESQ, rep
resent DIR. Dinkgravc. The occasion
for the rule is we'll and correctly OK
planned by the copy hereto annexed:
TO the Honorable Judge of the 18th Judicial
District Court, in and for the parish of
Ouachita, State of Louisiana:
w. w. Farmer, District Attorney of
the 18th judicial District of the State
of Louisiana, who presents in this be-
half in person in the name and by the
authority of the State of Louisiana in
person, comes into this Honorable
Court and gives the Court herein to
understand and be informed:
That on the goth day of September,
1872, bench warrants were issued for
the arrest of the following named par
ties accused in the case No. 552 On the
criminal docket, entitled The State VS..
Anderson Jackson and others, to-wit:
Anderson Jackson, John Culpepper,
Ben Franklin, Baptistc Miller, Gabriel
Savannah, Lee Franklin, Anthony
Lloyd, Wisncr Smith, William Nc
GoWan and Moses Frazier, all of whom
are under Indictment of the Grand
Jury for setting at liberty by force and
without due authority a person in GUS
tody for an offcnse not capital: the said
crime whereof the said parties are ac-
cused being necessarily punishable by
imprisonment at hard labor upon con-
viction. And he further gives the
Court to be informed that on the 21st
of September, 1872, Il. II. Dinkgrave,
Sheriff of the parish of Ouachita, State
of Louisiana, having received said war
rants, proceeded to the place in said
parish where they reside and saw said
parties accused, and instead of arresting
said parties accused or any of them, and
either combining them in the parish Jail
or taking their bail bonds with solvent
security as required by law and by the
warrants aforesaid, the said Sheriff left
the said accused parties unarrested, and
returned to the city of Monroe without
bringing any of them. He further
AYERS that on the 23rd day of Septem-
Der, 1872, all of said parties accused
were publicly in tho city of Monroe,
where this Honorable Court was then
in session, at large, to the full knowl-
edge of said Sheriff, but were neither
confined in Jail nor required to give
bond, in any manner whatever, until
after the adjournment of the Court for
that day. The District Attorney further
gives the Court to be informed that the
said Sheriff, after the adjournment of
said Court, took from all of said accused
their bonds, but without taking suffi-
Gent and solvent security as required
by law and by said warrants, except
from Baptiste Miller and Anderson
Jackson-thc securities on the other
bonds being neither sufficient nor SOL
vent.
Wherefore, the District Attorney
aforesaid gives the Court herein to I'M
derstand and be informed that the said
b. III. Dinkgravc, Sheriff of the parish
of Ouachita, has failed and refused to
properly discharge tho duties of his
Office as required by law, and has by
said failure and refusal been guilty of
contempt of this Honorable Court.
Wherefore, tho District Attorney
aforesaid prays this Honorable Court
that notice hereof be served on said b.
III. Dinkgrave, Sheriff of the parish of
Ouachita, according to law, and that a
time and place be fixed for the hearing
hereof, and that said Sheriff be ordered
to show cause at said time and place
why he should not DC punished accord
ing to law and suspended from his
office rs provided by law, and that up
on hearing said Sheriff be punished
and suspended from Office according to
law.
Tho District Attorney further prays
that now warrants Of arrest for all of
the aforesaid parties, except Baptiste
! Miller and Anderson jackson, be issued
and that your Honor take and approve
their bonds under the new warrants, to
the end that good and sufficient bonds
! may be taken according to lazy.
The District Attorney further prays
for such other orders and dccrccs rs the
nature of the case and law and equity
may require and for general relief.
(SigncD w. w. FAiMEE,
District Attorney, II th District.
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