He returned to his cell in the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest last July, without a word to his court-appointed attorney, Jack Walker, or his guard.

On April 5, 1925, George Rappleyea, who worked as a local manager for the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, happened to meet county superintendent of schools Walter White and local attorney Sue K. Hicks at Robinson's Drug Store and convinced them that the controversy of such a trial would give Dayton much needed publicity.

* Churton Town, the Orange County, North Carolina county seat laid out in 1754, is renamed Childsburgh in honor of North Carolina attorney general Thomas Child.

Other elected officials include the county sheriff, the county clerk, and the county attorney.

In 1879, the county was renamed Johnson, for E. P. Johnson, a Cheyenne attorney.

Other key county officials include the coroner / medical examiner, treasurer, assessor, auditor, controller, and district attorney.

In other words, most criminal defendants are prosecuted for violations of state law, not local ordinances, and if they, the district attorney, or police seek reforms to the criminal justice system, they will usually have to direct their efforts towards the state legislature rather than the county ( which merely implements state law ).

A typical criminal defendant will be arraigned and subsequently indicted or held over for trial before a trial court in and for a particular county where the crime occurred, kept in the county jail ( if he is not granted bail or cannot make bail ), prosecuted by the county's district attorney, and tried before a jury selected from that county.

But long-term incarceration is rarely a county responsibility, execution of capital punishment is never a county responsibility, and the state's responses to prisoners ' appeals is the responsibility of the state attorney general, who has to defend before the state appellate courts the prosecutions conducted by locally-elected district attorneys in the name of the state.

His father, attorney Oscar Waldo Williams, earlier served a decade as Pecos county judge.

The 1932 Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee, Orville Bullington, resided in Knox County and served as county attorney early in his career.

From 1975 to 1995, the Burleson county judge, who presides over the commissioner's court, were the son and father team of Mark Steglich Caperton ( born 1946 ), a Caldwell attorney, and Woods Allen Caperton ( 1920-2009 ).

The county is named in honor of Hezekiah Hamblen ( 1775 – 1854 ), an early settler, landowner, attorney, and member of the Hawkins County Court for many years.

On March 2, 2004, Multnomah County Chair Linn announced the county would begin granting licenses for same-sex marriages, pursuant to a legal opinion issued by its attorney deeming such marriages lawful under Oregon law.

* The county prosecuting attorney and his staff prosecute felony offenses, along with all misdemeanor, criminal and traffic offenses in violation of the Ohio Revised Code.

Three men who helped to perpetrate this swindle, including the county attorney and a judge of the county court, were shot and killed on April 24, 1872 while on board a Katy railroad spur between Bryson, Missouri and Paola, Kansas ( in or near what is now known as Gunn City ).

The sheriff and county attorney are also elected on a nonpartisan ticket.

Some coroners hold office by virtue of holding another office: in Nebraska, the county district attorney is the coroner ; in many counties in Texas, the Justice of the Peace may be in charge of death investigation ; in other places, the sheriff is the coroner.

In 1874, the state attorney general investigated, and found not a single resident of the county.

The monthly cost of ADC to more than 100,000 recipients in the county is 4.4 million dollars, said C. Virgil Martin, president of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., committee chairman.

Davenport is the county seat of and largest city in Scott County.

The city with the most votes from Scott County citizens in the February 1838 election would become the county seat.

The county seat is Frederick, which was home to several celebrated historical figures like Francis Scott Key, Thomas Johnson ( governor ), Roger B. Taney, and Barbara Fritchie.

The first land in the county to be purchased from the government was a tract in Scott Township sold to John Loop on July 23, 1822 ; many more tracts were entered in subsequent months, most in Union Township.

Pastoral Scott Valley in the western part of the county has many wide, tree-lined meadows, supporting large cattle ranches.

In 1856, the county was formed from land taken from Lee, Scott, and Russell Counties.

Scott County is a county located in the U. S. state of Virginia.

Scott County is a county located in the U. S. state of Tennessee.

In 1861 the county assembly officially enacted a resolution seceding from the state of Tennessee ( and thus the Confederacy ), forming the " Free and Independent State of Scott ," ( also known simply as the " State of Scott "), an anti-slavery and somewhat pro-Union enclave community.

Includes the Scott County Sheriff Department ; Oneida and Winfield Police Department ; a full-time ambulance service with 2 stations ; a volunteer rescue squad ; and 9 volunteer fire stations placed throughout the county.

* Scott county landforms

The north region of the county consists of the Wichita Mountains including Mount Scott and Mount Pinchot the area's highest peaks.

Since the opening of the W. Kerr Scott Dam in 1962, the Yadkin River has not flooded in the county.

The original county courts were held at the Dan Bryson home in the community of Beta in Scott Creek township, and moved to Webster the following year.

It was one of the first areas in the county to be settled by the whites, along with Caney Fork, River, Scott Creek, and Canada townships.

Four federal Congressional Districts cover the county, with most of the northern portion of the county in New Jersey's 5th congressional district, represented by Scott Garrett ( R ) and most of the southern portion of the county in New Jersey's 8th congressional district, represented by Bill Pascrell ( D ).

The county was officially organized on January 4, 1837, and named in honor of Roger Brooke Taney, the fifth Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, most remembered for later delivering the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford.

Scott County is a county located in Southeast Missouri in the United States.

The county was organized in 1821 and named for U. S. Representative John Scott, the first federal representative from Missouri.

The second county formed in Missouri ’ s Southeast Lowland Region, Scott County was created by the Missouri state legislature on December 28, 1821.

The county was named in honor of John Scott ( 1785-1861 ), the first congressman from Missouri.