Ex Parte Lange
Supreme Court of the United States
On petition for writs of habeas coi’pus and certiorari. Edward Lange filed a petition to this court at a former day, prayiug for a writ of habeas coi’pus to the marshal for the Southern District of New York, on the allegation that he was unlawfully imprisoned under an order of the Circuit Court of the United States for that district.
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On petition for writs of habeas coi’pus and certiorari. Edward Lange filed a petition to this court at a former day, prayiug for a writ of habeas coi’pus to the marshal for the Southern District of New York, on the allegation that he was unlawfully imprisoned under an order of the Circuit Court of the United States for that district. On consideration of the petition, the court was of opinion that the facts which it alleged very fairly raised the question whether the Circuit Court, in the sentence which it had pronounced, and under which the prisoner was held, had not exceeded its powers. It…
1DissentJustice Clifford
Provision is made by the act of the eighth of June, 1872, that any person who shall steal, purloin, or embezzle any mail-bag or other property in the use of or belonging to the *179Post-office Department, or who shall, for any lucre, gain, or convenience, appropriate any such property to his own use, or to any other than its proper use, or who shall, for any lucre or gain, convey away any such pioperty to the hindrance or detriment of the public service, his aiders, abettors, and counsellors, shall, if the value of the property be twenty-five dollars or more, be deemed guilty of felony, and on…
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