In re Macdonnell
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
On the 2fl of April, 1S73, a petition was presented to the Honorable LEWIS B. WOOD-RUFF, circuit judge, on behalf of George Mac-donnell, stating that he bad been arrested by the marshal of the United States for the Southern district of New York, and was now illegally held and restrained of his liberty; and that his arrest and detention were under color of a warrant issued by Joseph Gutman, Jr., a commissioner appointed by the circuit court for that district, and of certain…
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On the 2fl of April, 1S73, a petition was presented to the Honorable LEWIS B. WOOD-RUFF, circuit judge, on behalf of George Mac-donnell, stating that he bad been arrested by the marshal of the United States for the Southern district of New York, and was now illegally held and restrained of his liberty; and that his arrest and detention were under color of a warrant issued by Joseph Gutman, Jr., a commissioner appointed by the circuit court for that district, and of certain proceedings pending before such commissioner. teucJiing a charge against the petitioner, of having committed the crime of…
1Opinion of the Court
WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.
In announcing my conclusion upon the application for the discharge of the prisoner, I shall not occupy time in a preliminary history of the proceedings before myself, or before the commissioner, as might be proper if I were preparing a report of the matter, or an entire record, in order to give a complete history of the case. The argument, involving a review of every step in the proceedings, and each document and process, is so recent, that counsel are quite familiar with each, and, to some extent, the statement of the reasons for my conclusions will furnish occasion…
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