Case Name: Ex parte Bowling
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-10
Citations: 1 Cranch 39
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ex parte Bowling.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 39–39

Head Matter:
Ex parte Bowling.
A Constable suspended from office before rule to show cause.

Opinion:
On an affidavit stating that Joseph Bowling, a constable, had dismissed a peace warrant, and had received for his services $1.62 — The Court suspended him from office, and ordered a rule to be laid on him to show cause why an attachment of contempt should not issue.
Cranch, J.,
contra, because the charge was uncertain and ex parte, — no notice having been given.