| As the crowd scattered and dissipated, a few of us inched forward and managed to engage some of the sheriffs in conversation. |
| Judges, sheriffs and advocates are to be asked to remove their wigs and gowns and stop using arcane language under plans to make Scottish courts less intimidating. |
| And the spokeswoman for the Broward County sheriffs office candidly stated that we did that because of the media hype. |
| Unsalaried county sheriffs in Mobile and throughout the South received sizable allotments from state coffers to house and feed prisoners. |
| Killings and gunplay were rare, sheriffs, then marshals, then police, common. |
| In England, from the later middle ages, justices of the peace rose to ascendancy as county authorities, marginalizing sheriffs. |
