Pettibone v. Nichols
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Idaho refusing; upon habeas corpus, to discharge appellant who alleged that he was held in custody by the Sheriff of Canyon County, in that State, in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Idaho refusing; upon habeas corpus, to discharge appellant who alleged that he was held in custody by the Sheriff of Canyon County, in that State, in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States. It appears that on the twelfth day of February, 1906 a criminal complaint verified by the oath of the Prosecuting Attorney of that county, and charging Pettibone with having murdered Frank Steurienberg at Caldwell,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
As the application for the writ of habeas corpus was, by stipulation of the parties taken as the answer of the accused to the return of the officer holding him in custody, and as that answer was stricken out by the court below as immaterial, we must, on this appeal, regard as true all the facts sufficiently alleged in the application which, in a legal sense, bear upon the question whether the detention of the accused by the state authorities was in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States.
That application is too lengthy to be incorporated at large in this opinion. It is…
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