Legal Opinion

Ex parte Morrill

United States Circuit Court

Decided June 18, 1888PublishedCited by 26 opinions

Habeas Corpus.

1Opinion of the Court

Deady, J..'On June 4, 1888, the petitioner, Eli Morrill, was arrested by a police officer of this city, and lodged in the county jail on a charge of.assault and battery.

He immediately applied by petition to the United States district judge for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging in his petition that he was a deputy United States marshal for the district of Oregon; that in the discharge of his duty as such deputy he was about to,arrest a person for aiding and abetting an illegal voter in easting a vote for a representative in congress, át- polling place 8, in South Portland precinct, at an…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Ex Parte YarbroughSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
  2. Wheeler v. NesbittSupreme Court of the United States · 1861

3Cited by26 opinions

  1. United States v. BorkowskiDistrict Court, S.D. Ohio · 1920
  2. Garske v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1924
  3. State v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1924
  4. Agnello v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1923
  5. Marron v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1925

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