In re Nelson

HANFORD, District Judge.

The petitioner, being in the custody of the sheriff of King county, after conviction and sentence in *713the superior court of the state of Washington, for said county, of the crime of incest, has applied to this court to be' discharged, on the ground that the statute of the territory of Washington Under which he was prosecuted, was abrogated by the act of congress of March 3, 1887 (1 Supp. Rev. St., 2d Ed., 568), commonly known as the “Edmunds-Tucker Act,” which provided, among other tilings, for the punishment of bigamy and similar offenses, including the crime of…