LaRue v. Burns

How courts have described this case

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• stating that costs includes sums ordinarily taxable as expenses incurred in an action as provided by statute
• refusing to impose jail sentence for failure to timely pay court costs and holding a judgment for costs should be enforced by execution
• judgment for costs against a defendant in a criminal ease creates a civil and not a criminal liability
• court retains inherent power to punish disobedience to its orders
• discussing Iowa Code section 626.1 (1975)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).