Wales v. Whitney
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, refusing a writ of habeas corpus to release appellant, a Medical Inspector in the Navy, from restraint under an arrest, made by order of the Secretary of the Navy. The facts which make the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
MR. Justioe Miller
delivered the opinion of the. court.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, which refused to make an order on a writ of habeas corpus relieving appellant from the custody of the appellee, who, it is alleged, held the appellant in restraint of his liberty unlawfully.
Upon the decision of the Supreme Court of the District, adverse to petitioner, an application for an original writ of habeas corpus was made to this court by counsel for appellant, but, on a suggestion from the court that an act of Congress, at its session just closed,…
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