Ex Parte Yarbrough
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. Petition for a writ of habeas corpus for the release of several persons convicted, sentenced and imprisoned for conspiracy to intimidate a person of African descent from voting at an election for a member of Congress. The facts making the case appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This case originates in this court by an application for a wrii of habeas corpus on the part of Jasper Yarbrough and seven other persons, who allege that they are confined by the jailer of Fulton County, in the custody of the United States marshal for the' Northern District of Georgia^ and that the trial, conviction, and sentence in the Circuit Court of the United States for that district, under which they are held, were illegal, null and void.
The court, on the filing of this petition, issued a rule on the marshal, or on any person. in whose custody the prisoners might be found, to show cause…
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