The novel begins with Sheriff Alvar Kresh supervising a crime scene involving what appears to be an attempted murder of a prominent Inferno roboticist, Dr. Fredda Leving.

Caliban escapes the City of Hades ( the capital of Inferno ), but is located by both Dr. Leving and Sheriff Kresh.

Sheriff Alvar Kresh also returns in this book, brought along largely as window dressing for the Governor, since his jurisdiction is essentially nonexistent on the Island of Purgatory.

After Grieg successfully carries off the gathering and demonstrates his political will while hobnobbing with all of the major players in Inferno's complex politics, Sheriff Kresh is called to a murder scene involving the Ranger, Emoch Huthwitz.

Sheriff Kresh is informed some time later that Governor Chanto Grieg had foreseen the possibility he might be assassinated, and took steps to secure the office of Governor from being assumed by an ineffectual politician, Shelabas Quellam.

The character of John acts either to highlight the virtues of King Richard, or contrasts with the Sheriff of Nottingham, who is usually the " swashbuckling villain " opposing Robin.

In fact, the only character who does not get the better of Hood is the luckless Sheriff.

While the Sheriff of Nottingham and the town itself appear in early ballads, and Sherwood is specifically mentioned in the early ballad Robin Hood and the Monk, certain of the original ballads ( even those with Nottingham references ) locate Robin on occasion in Barnsdale ( the area between Pontefract and Doncaster ), approximately fifty miles north of Nottingham, in the county of Yorkshire ; furthermore, it has been suggested that the ballads placed in this area are far more geographically specific and accurate.

The Sheriff of Nottingham also had jurisdiction in Derbyshire that was known as the " Shire of the Deer ", and this is where the Royal Forest of the Peak is found, which roughly corresponds to today's Peak District National Park.

In Scotland, it is the Sheriff Court or District Court, depending on the offence ( the latter being primarily for the most minor of offences ).

" Hogg ( Sorrell Booke ) is the wealthiest man in Hazzard County ( except in a 4th season episode, " Ten Million Dollar Sheriff ", in which Rosco allegedly inherits $ 10 million ), and owns most of its property and businesses — whether directly or by holding the mortgages over the land.

Currently, R. J. Fisher is the Baltimore County Sheriff.

Sheriff James A. Bowen is the dean of NYS Sheriffs, having served as Sheriff since 1972, when he was appointed by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller.

For example, in " Robin Hood and the Tinker " and several other tales, the quarterstaff is the weapon in hand as the two engage in a duel, as the Tinker was apparently sent to bring Robin Hood to justice at the hands of the Sheriff of Nottingham.

" Web Sheriff, the international Internet policing company he hired, told Reuters: " The problem is that one can reduce it to zero and then the next day there will be 100 or 500 or whatever.

The current elected Sheriff is Kenneth L. Tregoning.

The Sheriff of Kent County is John Price IV.

Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan, a friend to the Cowboys, later testified that he first learned of the trouble while he was getting a shave at the barbershop after 1: 30 pm, which is when he had risen after the late-night game.

As a newcomer to the small local community, he is threatened by Hanner's son Orin, Jr. ( Brad Hunt ), the incompetent local tool of the company, the corrupt local Sheriff Lloyd ( Ed Bruce ), and several thugs that work for them.

It is believed to have been built c. 1540 for Richard Bel ( l ) ingham, twice High Sheriff of Sussex, whose initials are carved into a fireplace, and whose coat of arms adorns a period plaster ceiling.

She was pinned by a car and the Sheriff tells Graham that when the car is moved his wife will die.

The Sheriff of Orange County, also an elected position, is Jerry Demings.

The County Sheriff is chosen by the eligible voters in an " at large " election.

Andy Hughes serves as Sheriff, Probate Judge is Luke Cooley, Revenue Commissioner is Starla Moss Matthews, Coroner is Robert Byrd.

Cadfael likes to speak in Welsh, is exuberant when getting an opportunity to go back into Wales, and feels closer to many Welsh ways of doing things than Anglo-Norman ways: for example, letting all of a man's acknowledged children, whether born in or out of wedlock, share in his inheritance ; and recognizing degrees of crime, including homicide, which allows leniency to killers in certain circumstances, rather than the inflexibly mandatory capital punishment of Norman Law, administered reluctantly by Hugh Beringar and rigidly by his superior, Sheriff Gilbert Prestcote.

The current Sheriff of Limestone County is Mike Blakely, who has been sheriff for 7 terms ( since 1982 ).

In England, with King Richard still away, the cruel Sheriff of Nottingham ( Rickman ) rules over the land, aided by his cousin Guy of Gisbourne ( Michael Wincott ), along with the witch Mortianna ( Geraldine McEwan ) and the corrupt Bishop of Hereford ( Harold Innocent ).

" The TMNT aided the C. O. W .- Boys in stopping Sheriff Terrorbull from stealing a magic crystal shard.

Dodsworth was aided in his study of early Yorkshire by Thomas Levett, a native of High Melton, Yorkshire and High Sheriff of Rutland, who came into possession of the Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract, a collection of early Yorkshire documents kept by monks at the Cluniac abbey.

He still carries out the " letter of the law ", as deputy Sheriff, and wins over their respect.

There are major differences between English law and Scots law with respect to dealing with breach of the peace ; unlike England and Wales where criminal penalties apply to the behaviour leading to or liable to cause a breach of the peace, it is a specific criminal offence in Scotland which is prosecuted daily in the Sheriff Courts and due to its common law definition it can be applied to a number of scenarios.

Though he has strong respect and admiration for Rosenfield's medical skills, and is seemingly not intimidated by Rosenfield's sarcastic manner, he has little tolerance or patience for Rosenfield's treatment of the town's citizens-most particularly his animosity towards Sheriff Truman ( which notably thaws over time ).

In terms of the Sheriff Courts ( Scotland ) Act 1971 sheriffs principal are charged with a number of duties in respect of the courts for which they are responsible, including in particular a duty “ to secure the speedy and efficient disposal of business in the sheriff courts of that sheriffdom ”.

With a burning hatred of the Sheriff of Nottingham's men – and a lack of respect for all authority – he tells Robin he has changed his name from Scathelocke to Scarlet having killed three men in revenge.

Saloon owner Kent ( Brian Donlevy ), the unscrupulous boss of the fictional Western town of Bottleneck, has the town's Sheriff, Keogh, killed when the Sheriff asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game.

Monroe County, Michigan Deputy Sheriff Joseph Wood went into Toledo to arrest Major Benjamin Stickney, but when Stickney and his three sons resisted, the whole family was subdued and taken into custody.

On August 5, while Parker was visiting her mother in Dallas, Barrow, Raymond Hamilton and Ross Dyer were drinking alcohol at a country dance in Stringtown, Oklahoma, when Sheriff C. G.

Less than two weeks later, on January 6, 1933, Barrow killed Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff Malcolm Davis when he, Parker and Jones wandered into a police trap set for another criminal.

Beringar swore loyalty to King Stephen when he came of age ; the king, although initially suspicious, soon came to trust Beringar and appointed him Deputy Sheriff, and finally Sheriff of Shropshire.

Davidson County gained national attention when Gerald Hege, Sheriff from 1995 – 2003, became a minor celebrity for his unconventional prisoner treatment methods.

* Ralph Francis Baker ( 1938 – 1998 ), Madison County Sheriff from 1973 until 1998 when his automobile was swept into the White River while crossing a low water bridge, resulting in his drowning death on January 5, 1998.

However, Gillespie is soon appointed as the acting Sheriff of Newman County when Nathan McComb suffers a heart attack and is too ill to continue his duties.

In December 1906, Chattanooga was in the national headlines as the United States Supreme Court, in its only criminal case in its history, ruled that Hamilton County Sheriff Joseph H. Shipp had violated Ed Johnson's civil rights when Shipp allowed a mob to enter the Hamilton County Jail and lynch Johnson on the Walnut Street Bridge in United States v. Shipp.

Slaughter was small in stature but that did not deter him from becoming a man to be feared and respected by those on the side of the law — and by those who were not — when he was elected Sheriff of Cochise County in 1886.

Events turned bloody on February 18, 1878, when Tunstall was spotted while driving a herd of nine horses towards Lincoln and murdered by William Morton, Jesse Evans, Tom Hill, Frank Baker and Sheriff William J. Brady of Lincoln County — all members of a posse serving the House, sent to attack McSween's holdings.

According to the Domesday Book, the title was handed to Erneis de Burun in 1084, when he became Sheriff of Yorkshire.

He is mentioned in the film Blazing Saddles when Sheriff Bart tries to convince the reluctant citizens of Rock Ridge to support his plan to save the town.

He is first heard of as Sheriff of Yorkshire, Warwickshire and Leicestershire from 1163 to 1170 when, along with the majority of High Sheriffs, he was removed from office for corruption.

In 1174, when he was Sheriff of Westmorland, he was one of the English leaders at the Battle of Alnwick, and it was to him that the king of Scotland, William the Lion, surrendered.

Previous owners were the Lomax family who bought the house in 1666 and who lived there until 1854 when Joshua Lomax sold it to Henry Hayman Toulmin, a wealthy ship owner and High Sheriff of Hertfordshire and mayor of St Albans.

In the film adaption of The Tommyknockers, when the Sheriff is almost attacked by Bobbi's dog, she tells Bobbi that she'd better " put Cujo on a leash.

He initially appears to be an ally, pardoning the outlaws, but when it becomes politically expedient to reinstate the Sheriff, he orders Robin killed ( unsuccessfully ).