Ex parte Johnson
Decision Date | 01 January 1884 |
Citation | 19 N.W. 594,15 Neb. 512 |
Parties | EX PARTE HIBBERT JOHNSON |
Court | Nebraska Supreme Court |
WRIT DENIED.
Hastings & McGintie, for the petitioner.
This is an original application for a writ of habeas corpus.
There are two questions presented upon which the writ is sought.
1st. It is claimed that the justice of the peace before whom the petitioner was tried and convicted upon a criminal complaint was not in fact such officer; but he claimed, held, and usurped said office without authority of law.
It clearly appears from the petition and copies of the docket entries attached, that the justice claims to hold and exercise the functions of his office by right.
It is well settled that the acts of an officer de facto are valid, and it as clearly appears that the justice before whom the petitioner was tried and convicted was, at least, an officer de facto.
Again, the title to an office, by which one holds and exercises the functions of such office, cannot be litigated in this collateral way. It can only be done by a direct proceeding instituted for that purpose.
2d. It is contended by the applicant that the mittimus by which he is held is void, it being a command to detain him until the next term of the district court, when it should have been until the fine and costs assessed against him were paid. By reference to the docket entry of the justice, we find the following recital: The fine and costs have not been paid. The writ is therefore denied. By the court,
WRIT DENIED.
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