WESTENHAVER, District Judge.
This petition was filed by William T. Shockley for a writ of habeas corpus, directed to Fred Kohler, sheriff of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, asking petitioner's release from imprisonment. An answer was filed to the alternative writ, disclosing that the petitioner was held under authority of an order of the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county, committing him as for a contempt for refusing to obey an order of that court. At this hearing,...
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