Ex parte Ward
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. No number. This was an application for leave to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The case is ’stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
Ward was tried and found guilty before Edward R. Meek, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas, for “having in his possession counterfeit moulds,” and was sentenced October 22, 1898, to the penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, .Kansas, at hard labor for a period of one year and one day, and committed accordingly to the custody of the warden of said prison. He now makes application for leave to file a petition for habeas corpus on the ground that the sentence was void because Judge Meek was appointed July 13, 1898, after the adjournment of the previous…
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