Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1909 — Governor Draws Warrant to Settle Claim in McCoy Case. [ARTICLE]

Governor Draws Warrant to Settle Claim in McCoy Case.

Governor Marshall has drawn «H| state warrent for $364 against governor's emergency contiogen®||| fund, the cost of retaining Thomas jflß McCoy, the Rensselaer bank vvreekfl|§§ er, in the state prison during thflH davo which he claimed as his own beKi|| cause of his record for good behaviofl^jl went to Osborn, McVey & Osborn, :dHj|fg torneys, of Laporte, retained bflß Warden Reid, of the prison, in flghßH ing a case brought in court by ul Coy's attorneys to obtain his frefliß ilom, and the remainder went to J’«§§§§ F. Gallagher for court costs, trauH|H cript fees, etc. Action by McCoy’s vMEB, torney to obtain the prisoner’s dfljH charge was based on an opinion ghBUII by Attorney-General Bingham, BHH which it was held that the indeterH|B inate sentence law, now in force, bß|jH " ii-.-ai.-d tiie former law provHHHj i: ; lor ,i i educt ion of the sentetHHH| f< - l'imkl behavior. AccordflHH to the statutes, the attorney-geneM||B was the proper legal agent to re tfiflß sent tlie warden in the resulting BBS tion in court, but since the attonfl||B general, by Isis opinion, had !irr; -H||§f|§ himself on the side of McCoy’s HB torneys, the warden was told by Ehß governor to employ counsel. jnmn|