Case Summary

Getchie was arrested for vagrancy. After the evidence was announced, he was convicted and sentenced to thirty days and for the last six days he could only eat bread and water. No formal entry was made in the records of the judgment or the sentence in the police records. The court decided that forgetting to record was simply an error that did not affect the process under which Getchie was held. Therefore, the judge ruled that Getchie should remain in jail for the rest of his sentence.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Vagrancy

Sites of significance

• Douglas County Jail (Omaha, Nebraska)

Outcome

Writ denied

Fate of bound party

Remained in custody

Case Citation

History Nebraska, RG230 Douglas County Records, Subgroup 10: District Court, 1855-1972, Series 2: General Index Books & Court Journals, Vol. 10: Dec. 5, 1891 - Feb. 8, 1892, p. 718; Douglas County District Court, Civil Appearance Docket Files, Project No. 45, Roll 441: Doc. 29-212 to 29-255, No. 29-213

Source material(s)

Index | Case File | Journal

Length of case file

Between 21 and 30 pages

Repository(s)

• History Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)
• Douglas County District Court (Omaha, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

Tag(s)

• Technical vagrancy

People

• Getchie, M. D. (petitioner)
• Getchie, M. D. (bound party)
• Clair, W. J. (petitioner attorney)
• Scott, Cunningham R. (judge)
• Bennett, George A. (holding party)
• Bennett, George A. (respondent)
• Bennett, George A. (responding party)
• Berka, Louis (authority ordering detention)

• Additional parties

  Turkington, G. E. (notary public)

  Davis, Will (accused with Getchie)

  Davis, Will (accused with Getchie)

  Allin, Frank (accused with Getchie)

  Garibalda, L. (accused with Getchie)

  Murfly, Richard (accused with Getchie)

  Moore, Frank E. (clerk)

  Lewis, John (deputy)