Exparte Crouse
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
HABEAS CORPUS. This was a habeas corpus directed to the keeper and managers of the “House of Refuge,” in the county of Philadelphia, requiring them to produce before the Court one Mary Ann Crouse, an infant, detained in that institution. The petition for the habeas corpus was in the name of her father.
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HABEAS CORPUS. This was a habeas corpus directed to the keeper and managers of the “House of Refuge,” in the county of Philadelphia, requiring them to produce before the Court one Mary Ann Crouse, an infant, detained in that institution. The petition for the habeas corpus was in the name of her father. By the return to the writ it appeared, that the girl had been committed to the custody of the managers by virtue of a warrant under the hand and seal of Morton M'Michael, Esq., a justice of the-peace of the county of Philadelphia, which recited that complaint and-due proof had been made before…
1Per curiam
— The Plouse of Refuge is not a prison, but a school. Where reformation, and not punishment, is the end, it may indeed be used as a prison for juvenile convicts who would else be committed to a common gaol; and in respect to these, the constitutigM^ ality of the act which incorporated it, stands clear of controi^^^^H It is only in respect of the application of its discipline to suljj^^^V admitted on the order of a courts a magistrate, or the ma-nagcn^Mp the Alms-house, that a doubt is entertained. The object of the charity is reformation, by training its inmates to industry; by imbuing their…
2Cited by45 opinions
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