Legal Opinion

Medley

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 3, 1890No. 5, OriginalPublishedCited by 346 opinions

ORIGINAL. The case is stated in the opinion. submitted on their brief.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Millee

This is an application to this court by James J. Medley for a writ of habeas .corpus, the object of which is to relieve him from the imprisonment in which he is held by J. A. Lamping, warden of the state penitentiary of the State of Colorado.

The petitioner is held a prisoner under sentence of death pronounced by the“District Court of the Second District of the State of Colorado for the county of Arapahoe. The petition of the prisoner sets forth that an indictment for the murder of Ellen Medley was found against him by the grand jury of Arapahoe County on the 5th day of June, 1889; that the…

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