Randolph County AlArchives News.....Ephriam Mitchell Released.  June 14, 1889
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The Evening News June 14, 1889
Judge Sharpe, in chambers this morning, heard the habeas corpus case of Ephriam 
Mitchell, white, of Randolph County, and ordered the prisoner release. This is 
the second of the cases brought under the recent decision of the State Supreme 
Court, declaring that where a prisoner is sentenced to a fine and has to work it 
out at hard labor, an additional sentence to labor to pay costs is 
unconstitutional and void. The prisoner was convicted and sentenced by the 
Circuit Court of Randolph County to ten days fine and an additional term to pay 
costs and was being worked by the Sloss iron and Steel Company at its mines. In 
this connection it may be interesting to know, remarked Jude Sharpe to the 
reporter, that State solicitor Lomax, of the Montgomery circuit, has filed a 
petition before the Supreme Court for a rehearing in the case of Strong vs. the 
State, last decided. He makes his petition for a rehearing very strong, and 
produces a similar case, reported in Fifth Alabama reports, believe, in which 
the identical points came up and the court held exactly the reverse opinion to 
that recently delivered.

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