The sheriff is legally qualified, in comparison with a lay Justice of the Peace who preside over the first-tier District Courts of Scotland.

* Ernest Wooton, District 105 state representative ( 1999 – 2012 ), Plaquemines Parish sheriff ( 1984 – 1992 )

Constables primarily serve the District Courts but may also assist in serving the Common Pleas Court, when requested by the sheriff.

He later became a sheriff and magistrate in the District of Assiniboia.

* 2007 – Frank A. Howard, a former Democratic sheriff of Vernon Parish, Louisiana, became a Republican to win the District 24 seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Their well proves a bust and they have to hastily depart when Aldrich shows up with the sheriff to take back his property.

Cleveland then stayed out of politics until 1870 when, with the help of his friend, Oscar Folsom, he secured the Democratic nomination for sheriff of Erie County.

As sheriff, Cleveland was responsible for either personally carrying out the execution or paying a deputy $ 10 to perform the task.

In the film's final scene, Veronica, covered in ash and bleeding slightly, confronts Heather Duke in the halls, takes Heather Chandler's red scrunchie, says " Heather my love, there's a new sheriff in town " and invites Martha Dunnstock to hang out on prom night and watch movies with her, a final display that the Heathers ' reign is over.

Two passers-by noticed the ruckus that Saturday afternoon and local rancher Jack Flagg rode to Buffalo ( the county seat of Johnson County ) where the sheriff raised a posse of 200 men over the next 24 hours and the party set out for the KC on Sunday night, April 10.

Earlier in the same year, at the battle of George Square on 31 January, in Glasgow, the city's sheriff was in the process of reading the Riot Act to a crowd of 90, 000 – when the sheet of paper he was reading from was ripped out of his hands by one of the rioters.

Dude whacks Chance with a piece of wood, knocking the sheriff out cold.

When another patron draws his gun on Chance, causing a stalemate, Dude shoots the gun out of the patron's hand, Chance slugs Joe with his rifle, and the sheriff and his deputy drag Joe off to jail.

Asked by anxious citizens — Abbie's uncle, Dr. Irving ( Henry Travers ) among them — to be the new sheriff, Hatton politely declines, saying he is not cut out for this kind of job.

The new sheriff and his deputy — Rusty of course — have a hard time not just fighting the criminals but also convincing all the farmers who have been wronged by Surrett that mob rule (" Come on, boys, let's take ' em out to the plaza ") is out of the question: When Yancey ( Victor Jory ), one of Surrett's thugs, is in jail, Hatton has to protect him against the furious men outside who, not caring for Yancey's right to a fair trial, want to take the law into their own hands and lynch him right then and there.

Outside Dublin and Cork the County Registrar carries out the functions of the sheriff regarding judgements.

Other episode plots in this season included: a prominent citizen being murdered due to sexual abuse in his family ; Virgil ’ s ex-partner and Althea ’ s ex-lover coming back to Sparta and being exposed as a murderer ; Chief Gillespie having to confront the legacy of his own bigoted past when he's duty-bound to arrest a close, lifelong friend — who is also the sheriff of the neighboring county — for committing a racially-motivated murder in his jail ; Bubba getting caught up in a love triangle ; Althea ’ s niece visiting from Philadelphia ; Virgil and Althea going to an all-White church ; Joanne being stalked by a murderous ex-con, which eventually exposes that she had been a prostitute out of necessity in a different city, long ago ; the arrest of councilwoman White ’ s son ; Chief Gillespie witnessing, and being deeply affected by, an execution ; a plant strike that leads to murder ; Bubba being accused of rape ; and, a manhunt for a drunk driver who killed three of Sparta's most popular high school cheerleaders, and crippled a fourth.

Later, as the men prepare to drive home, the sheriff suddenly asks Ed why there were four life jackets when only Lewis, Ed and Bobby came out of the river.

Soon after the new County was formed, its Board of Commissioners was tasked with establishing a permanent county seat within eight miles ( 13 km ) of the home of Eben Hearne ( the County's first sheriff ), and with laying out a new town, in which a courthouse would be erected.

The county seat, initially known as Charleston, was laid out in a T-shape formed by what is now Main Street and Everett Street ( the latter street was named for the county's first sheriff, Epp Everett ).

Running on a pledge to rid the area of rustlers, Garrett was elected as sheriff of Lincoln County in November 1880 ; in early December, he assembled a posse and set out to arrest McCarty, at that time known almost exclusively as " Billy the Kid.

One Southern sheriff told a reporter why Witnesses were being run out of town: " They're traitors ; the Supreme Court says so.

* July 16: ( Michigan's department of History, Arts, and Libraries says it was the 15th ) The deputy sheriff attempted to carry out his commission.

As Jake and Melanie kiss, the town sheriff, Wade, interrupts them explaining that Melanie is wanted because she ran out on a perfectly good cake.

The local sheriff, moved by her yearning to visit her girlhood home, offers to drive her out to what remains of Bountiful.

When the group demand their money back, the sheriff, who turns out to be Porky's brother, arrives to drive them away, but not before his minions extort the rest of their money and cause them more embarrassment.

Porky and his men, joined by the sheriff, chase after the group, but they make it across the county line ( where Porky's brother is out of jurisdiction ), where they are met by a group of the local police officers, one of whom is Mickey's older brother Ted, and the high school band.

When Sam ( Burl Ives ), the sheriff, brings the news, Adam rushes to the train station in an attempt to dissuade him, but can only watch helplessly as his son steams away from him with his head out the rail car window, maniacally laughing at him.

When a white deputy sheriff and a railroad detective, arrived at the church, a fight broke out between them and the guards.

This implied a number of privileges, among which the right for the sheriff and magistrates to the end of the war, there was gas available only two hours per day.

" Within a century of the Norman Conquest of 1066, as in the case of Thomas Becket in 1164, there arose the practice of sending to each greater baron a personal summons demanding his attendance at the King's Council, which evolved into the Parliament and later into the House of Lords, whilst as was stipulated in Magna Carta of 1215, the lesser barons of each county would receive a single summons as a group through the sheriff, and representatives only from their number would be elected to attend on behalf of the group.

The sheriff did come down to Chokoloskee after that, and took a number of Chokoloskee residents back to Fort Myers for a court session, but nothing came of it.

* A writ of praemunire instructs a sheriff to order someone to appear in court to answer for any of a number of different crimes.

Fearing his arrest, Hidalgo commanded his brother Mauricio, as well as Ignacio Allende and Abasolo to go with a number of other armed men to make the sheriff release the inmates there on the night of 15 September They managed to set eighty free.

Lieutenants were first appointed to a number of English historic counties by Henry VIII in the 1540s, when the military functions of the sheriff were handed over to him.

Fearing his arrest, Hidalgo commanded his brother Mauricio, as well as Ignacio Allende and Mariano Abasolo to go with a number of other armed men to make the sheriff release the pro-independence inmates there on the night of 15 April.

During the night a great number of the rebels deserted, and the next day the sheriff of York arrived from the south with additional forces.

Thirty-three registration counties were formed: they differed in number from the thirty-four civil counties then existing as the Barony and Regality of Glasgow was to be treated as a county, while four counties which shared a sheriff were paired ( Rosshire with Cromarty and Orkney with Zetland ).

Although his brother Virgil had far more experience as a sheriff, constable, and marshal, Wyatt, who outlived Virgil, and was made famous by a largely fictionalized biography by Stuart Lake, has been the subject of and model for a large number of films, TV shows, biographies and works of fiction.

The sheriff attempts a number of dirty tricks in order to waylay Red.

His father inherited extensive former monastic lands, and served in a number of administrative capacities, including high sheriff, custos rotulorum, and Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.

) The provision limiting sheriffs to three consecutive two-year terms was replaced with one allowing sheriffs an unlimited number of consecutive four-year terms ( a provision called by some wags the " Fate Thomas Amendment ", as it seemed to have been passed largely at the behest at the then hugely-popular sheriff and political boss of Davidson County, who was otherwise about to be term-limited out of office and who eventually served federal time for corruption-related offenses ).

Using old medical and dental records, as well as the serial number on the plane's engine ( a 4-cylinder, Continental ), the remains were positively identified by the county sheriff office as being that Clifford Gillman and Robert Louviere, missing since June 16, 1963.

The sheriff of Connaught was in the town before them, with a great number of the English.

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 ”.