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Pioneer Life in Oceana Co.
One of them sentenced the sheriff of the county (or ex-sheriff) to imprisonment in the county jail, for a term of years, for shooting his neighbor's hog. That prisoner appreciated the reserved right of the writ of habeas corpus, by which he regained his liberty. Another justice sentenced a man to jail for debt, and the constable, a faithful officer, started with his prisoner on foot, for Ottawa jail, a distance of some thirty-five miles.
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