United States v. Patterson
United States Circuit Court
On Habeas Corpus for tho body of Oscar L. Baldwin. The petition for habeas corpus in this case was presented to Joseph P. Bradley, an associate justice of the supreme court of tho United States, allotted to the Third circuit, on the thirtieth of December, 1886, and alleges that the petitioner, Oscar L. Baldwin, is imprisoned in the state’s prison of the state of New Jersey, in custody of John H. Patterson, the keeper thereof, under judgment, sentence, and commitment thereon…
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On Habeas Corpus for tho body of Oscar L. Baldwin. The petition for habeas corpus in this case was presented to Joseph P. Bradley, an associate justice of the supreme court of tho United States, allotted to the Third circuit, on the thirtieth of December, 1886, and alleges that the petitioner, Oscar L. Baldwin, is imprisoned in the state’s prison of the state of New Jersey, in custody of John H. Patterson, the keeper thereof, under judgment, sentence, and commitment thereon of the district court of the United Stales for the district of Now Jersey, said judgment being rendered oil tho…
1Opinion of the Court
Bradley, Justice.
I have duly considered the matter aforesaid, and will proceed to state the conclusion to which I have come, and the reasons thereof. It is manifest that the judgment or sentence in this case is uncertain in this respect: it imposes the penalty of imprisonment at hard labor in the state’s prison for the term of five years upon each indictment, and adds that tlio said terms shall not run concurrently, but does not specify upon which indictment either of said terms of imprisonment is to be undergone. If the prisoner is to he detained in prison for three successive terms, neither…
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