Johnson v. United States

OPINION OF THE COURT. This is an application for a rule to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not be issued to bring up the body of the defendant, now confined in the penitentiary by the sentence of this court, for aiding and assisting in making counterfeit money. The indictment charged the offence to have been committed more than two years before the indictment was found. The 31st section of the act of the 30th April, 1790, declares, “that no person shall be prosecuted, tried or punished, for any offence not capital, &c. unless the indictment or information for the same shall be…