OSBORNE v. PURDOME

Nos. 42752-42754.

244 S.W.2d 1005 (1951)

OSBORNE v. PURDOME, Sheriff. SYMPSON v. PURDOME, Sheriff. CABBELL v. PURDOME, Sheriff.

Supreme Court of Missouri, en Banc.

Rehearing Denied January 14, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. O. Sawyers, St. Joseph, Ira B. McLaughlin, Kansas City, for petitioner, Alfred H. Osborne.

Ira B. McLaughlin, Kansas City, for petitioner, Robert B. Sympson.

J. Arnot Hill, Kansas City, for petitioner, Phil Cabbell.

John W. Oliver, Horace F. Blackwell, Jr., and Albert Thomson, all of Kansas City, Henry H. Fox, Jr., Pros. Atty., of Jackson County, Kansas City, of counsel, amici curiae, for respondent.


HOLLINGSWORTH, Judge.

Habeas corpus. The petitioners are Alfred H. Osborne, Robert B. Sympson and Phil Cabbell. They, with J. Carl James, Matt Jones and Vernon Everage, were jointly charged with and adjudged guilty of criminal contempt in the Circuit Court of Jackson County. James and Everage accepted the sentence imposed upon them. Jones died before being sentenced.

Petitioners Osborne, Sympson and Cabbell were each sentenced to imprisonment in the county...

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