Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Potts v. Rabb
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 14, 1944No. 8543PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIGGS, Circuit Judge.
The appeal at bar, stripped to its essentials, requires us to decide the question of whether an individual, arrested upon a bench warrant issued under an indictment, may test by writ of habeas corpus the sufficiency of the evidence before the grand jury which returned the indictment.
The indictment charges the appellant with a conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with the construction of a naval depot at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. It was returned by a duly constituted grand jury of the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of…
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- Ex Parte MasonSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
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