Carper v. Fitzgerald
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL EEOM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. This was an appeal from an order discharging a prisoner on a writ of habeas corpus. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.,
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This was a proceeding before the Circuit' Judge for the Fourth Circuit at his Chambers in Baltimore, Maryland, for the discharge of Bichard L. Fitzgerald from the custody of H. A. Carper, jailer of Pulaski County, Virginia, under a mittimus from John H. Cecil, a justice of the peace of that county. The petition was presented to the judge in Baltimore, who directed the clerk of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to issue a writ of habeas corpus, and make it returnable before him at the United States courthouse in Baltimore. The writ was accordingly issued, under the seal of…
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