Alberti v. Sheriff of Harris County, Texas

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• city judge, sitting as a magistrate, may accept complaints and issue arrest warrants on cases which he cannot try on the merits
• city judge, sitting as a magistrate, may accept complaints and issue arrest warrants on cases which he cannot try on the merits
• city judge, sitting as a magistrate, may accept complaints and issue arrest warrants on cases which he cannot try on the merits
• city judge, sitting as a magistrate, may accept complaints and issue arrest warrants on cases which he cannot try on the merits
• commissioners court has duty to maintain safe and suitable jail; sheriff has duty to keep safely prisoners in his custody
• federal court, in the exercise of its pendent jurisdiction, has wide discretion in ordering defendants to comply with state law and in fashioning effective relief

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).