In re Wilson
District Court, E.D. Michigan
This was an application for a writ of habeas corpus to release a prisoner confuted in tho Detroit House of Correction, under sentence from the district court for the eastern district of Arkansas.
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This was an application for a writ of habeas corpus to release a prisoner confuted in tho Detroit House of Correction, under sentence from the district court for the eastern district of Arkansas. A copy of the record of his conviction was annexed to his petition, from which it appeared that he was found guilty upon an information which contained a count under Rev. St. § 54-30, for having in possession, with fraudulent intent, an obligation engraved and printed after the similitude of an interest-bearing coupon bond of the United States. The information also contained a second count, under…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
1. The prisoner was convicted upon an information charging him with the fraudulent possession of an obligation in the resemblance and similitude of a government bond, and with passing a counterfeited obligation of the United States. It is claimed that these are “infamous” crimes', within the meaning of the constitution, and that/the court had no jurisdiction to proceed except upon indictment of the grand jury. There is no definition of the word “infamous” to be found in the statutes, although, by the law of this and several other states, the word “felony” includes every offense punishable by…
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