Ex parte Harris

Citations

• 85 Miss. 4

Syllabus

<p>1. Landlord and Tenant. Laborer. Share-cropper. Violation of contract. Laws 1900, p. 140, oh. 101. Criminal law.</p> <p>Laws 1900, p. 140, ch. 101, making it a misdemeanor for any laborer, renter, or share-cropper, who has contracted with another person in writing for a specified time, not exceeding one year, to leave his employer or the leased premises before the expiration of his contract, without the consent of his employer or landlord, and make a second contract without giving notice of the first one to the second party, is not violated by a person, under such first contract, who merely obtained money from his employer or landlord on pretenses of going to certain places on business, and who left the premises of his employer or landlord and did not return.</p> <p>2. Same. Habeas corpus. Discharge of relator. Code 1892, $ 2228.</p> <p>A relator who has been arrested upon an affidavit, purporting to be predicated of said statute, which charges no offense, should be discharged upon habeas corpus, notwithstanding Code 1892, § 2228, providing that a person shall not be discharged on habeas corpus because of invalid proceedings if -he ought to be held for any crime alleged against him, where it is not made manifest that he has been guilty of some crime.</p>