In re Ascher
Michigan Supreme Court
Habeas corpus by Edward Ascher to the sheriff of Wayne county, with ancillary writ of certiorari to Judge Murphy, of the recorder’s court of Detroit, to obtain a discharge from custody on a charge of murder.
1Opinion of the Court
Moore. J.
The petitioner is now detained by the sheriff of the county of Wayne, pending an indictment ■charging him with the murder of Valmore C. Nichols. The petition filed in this cause for his discharge shows that said charge is still pending and undetermined in the recorder’s court of the city of Detroit. Petitioner claims he has once been in jeopardy, within the meaning of the Constitution of the State and of the United States, and cannot again be tried, but is entitled to his discharge. '
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