State v. Higgins
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Petition by Peter Higgins, in the original jurisdiction of this Court, for writ of habeas corpus. Writ granted, and petitioner discharged by order of this Court, April 29,1897.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
This was an application, addressed to this Court, in the exercise of its original jurisdiction, by the defendant, for a discharge under a writ of habeas corpus. It appears from the sheriff’s return do the writ that the defendant was committed to his custody, “By virtue of an order of arrest for the violation of act No. 98, laws of 1896, in that being a citizen of the county of Charleston, he did catch fish for profit in the waters of Berkeley County, to me directed, a copy of which, annexed, I transmit to you.”
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