Ex Parte Fonda
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. This was a motion for leave to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The averments in the petition were as follows: “ First.
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ORIGINAL. This was a motion for leave to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The averments in the petition were as follows: “ First. That on the 10th day of November, 1885,' your petitioner was sentenced to imprisonment in the State prison at Jackson, Michigan, by the Circuit Court of St. Joseph County, in that State, for the term and' period of three years and six months from, and including the day aforesaid, as will appear ‘ from, a copy of said sentence1 hereto attached. “ Second. That the conviction of your petitioner, upon which said sentence was based, was procured in said…
1Opinion of the Court
.Mn. -Chief Justice Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
■This motion is denied on the authority of Ex parte Royall, ante 241. No reason is suggested why the Supreme Court of the State may not review the judgment of the Circuit Court of the county upon the question which is raised as to the applica-tidn of the statute, under which the. conviction has been had, to embezzlements by -the servants and clerks 6f national banks,- . nor why it should not be permitted to do, so without interfer- . ence by the courts of the United States. The question appears \to be one'which, if properly presented…
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