In re Romaine
California Supreme Court
This was an application to be discharged from arrest on habeas corpus. On the second day of November, 1863, HUI Beachy and Thomas Farrell presented to the Governor of California the following requisition, and affidavit annexed, and demanded a warrant for the arrest of the petitioners: Executive Office, Lewiston, Idaho Territory, ) United States of America, a.d., 1863. ¡ To Ms Excellency the Gcovernor of British Columbia, or of the State of California: Be it known, that on…
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This was an application to be discharged from arrest on habeas corpus. On the second day of November, 1863, HUI Beachy and Thomas Farrell presented to the Governor of California the following requisition, and affidavit annexed, and demanded a warrant for the arrest of the petitioners: Executive Office, Lewiston, Idaho Territory, ) United States of America, a.d., 1863. ¡ To Ms Excellency the Gcovernor of British Columbia, or of the State of California: Be it known, that on this twenty-third day of October, a.d., 1863, personally appeared before me, W. H. Wickersham, who presented to me an…
1Opinion of the Court
The application for discharge was heard before Justice Crocker,, by whom the opinion was delivered.
*589The parties in this case were arrested and held in custody under a warrant issued by the Governor of this State, upon a requisition made by the acting Governor of Idaho Territory, alleging that they were charged with the crime of murder and highway robbery, committed in Idaho Territory, and that they fled from that Territory to this State. They have obtained a writ of habeas corpus to determine the validity of their arrest and imprisonment.
The first question raised by the counsel for the…
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