Unlike cops, sheriffs exercise judicial power, not executive

Fresh water for the bar, the Clerks, the litigants and the witnesses should be kept constantly in the Court room, in clean buckets, and supplied with clean dippers, tumblers, or other drinking vessels. — Duties of sheriff, 1891, Gibson’s Suits in Chancery Policing continues to take lives in Chattanooga, with the latest encounter between an officer and a man shooting bullets into houses. By David Tulis / 92.7 NoogaRadio One could say safely that the death of a man firing a weapon into houses is not to be counted as a grievous thing, since he had it coming to him … Continue reading Unlike cops, sheriffs exercise judicial power, not executive