Court of Appeals of Kentucky July 1, 1808 (Price v. Shelby Circuit Court)

Edwards, ,Cg. J,

now delivered, the following state-raen(- of,the case.and opinion of the court*,(b) :

r rom the bul at exceptions upon which this motion is founded, it appears that a capias had been issued against Whitaker, an absconding indictee, pursuant to the act of 1796 (c) ; by which precept the sheriff was also corn-manded “ to seize his chatties, and safely to keep them.