In Re Green
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COUBT OP THE UNITED • STATES FOB THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. This was a writ of habeas corpus, granted upon the petition of Charles Green, by the Circuit Court of the United States, to the sergeant and jailer of the city of Manchester in the State of Yirginiá, who justified his detention of the prisoner under a judgment of the hustings or corporation court of the city, sentencing him. to be imprisoned in the city jail for five weeks and to pay a…
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COUBT OP THE UNITED • STATES FOB THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. This was a writ of habeas corpus, granted upon the petition of Charles Green, by the Circuit Court of the United States, to the sergeant and jailer of the city of Manchester in the State of Yirginiá, who justified his detention of the prisoner under a judgment of the hustings or corporation court of the city, sentencing him. to be imprisoned in the city jail for five weeks and to pay a fine of five dollars, upon his conviction by a jury on an indictment charging him with unlawfully, knowingly,…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice Geay,
after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court’.-
In this case, as in Toney’s case, just decided, (ante, 372,) the question presented is whether the courts of the State of Yirginia had jurisdiction of the charge against the prisoner. But that is the only respect in which.the two cases have any resemblance..By the Constitution of the United States, the electors for President and Vice President in .each State are appointed by the State in such manner as its legislature may direct; their number is equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to…
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