Dominick v. Bowdoin
Supreme Court of Georgia
Habeas Corpus. Pardons. Before Judge Green. Chambers. Spalding county, March, 1871. Dominick was indicted in 1869, for murdering one Pilkinton, in said county, in 1868. A bench-warrant was placed in the sheriff’s hands; he arrested Dominick on the 19th of February, 1871, and had him duly committed to jail. Dominick had habeas corpus issued to release him' from imprisonment. The sheriff relied upon his arrest and detention on said bench warrant.
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Habeas Corpus. Pardons. Before Judge Green. Chambers. Spalding county, March, 1871. Dominick was indicted in 1869, for murdering one Pilkinton, in said county, in 1868. A bench-warrant was placed in the sheriff’s hands; he arrested Dominick on the 19th of February, 1871, and had him duly committed to jail. Dominick had habeas corpus issued to release him' from imprisonment. The sheriff relied upon his arrest and detention on said bench warrant. Dominick replied, by producing and offering as evidence, a pardon by the Governor of this State, (R. B. Bullock,) dated the 20th of October, 1870. It…
1Opinion of the Court
Lochrane, Chief Justice.
At the April Term, 1869, of the Superior Court of the county of Pike, John A. Dominick, the plaintiff in error, was indicted for murder. In October, 1870, the Governor of this State granted and caused to be delivered to him an unconditional pardon. Subsequently to this pardon he was arrested by the sheriff upon a bench-warrant issued from Pike Superior Court, upon the indictment for murder, and taken before some judicial officers in Pike county, who ordered him to be lodged in the common jail of the county of Spalding for safe keeping.
During his confinement in jail he…
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