People ex rel. Brown v. Hoesen

A. P. Smith, County Judge.

— On the first day of September, inst., upon the petition of A. D. Brown; the relator, I issued a writ of habeas corpus directing the sheriff of Cortland county tp produce before me this day the body of the relator, with the cause of his imprisonment. In obedience to this writ he returns that he holds him by virtue of an execution againstj his body issued out of the Cortland county court, upon a judgment entered therein for a violation of the excise law of 1857. This return is traversed by the relator, who alleges that at the time when this execution was issued to…