In Re Quarles and Butler
Supreme Court of the United States
These were two motions for leave to file petitions for writs of habeas corpus to Samuel 0. Dunlop, marshal of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia.
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These were two motions for leave to file petitions for writs of habeas corpus to Samuel 0. Dunlop, marshal of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia. The first motion was in behalf of John M. Quarles and David- Butler; and the case was as follows: At March term, 1895', of the Circuit Court of the United States for that district, an indictment was returned against the petitioners and several other persons, the fourth count of which alleged that within that district, on April 7, 1894, the defendants conspired “ to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate one Henry Worley, a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
These cases are governed by the principles declared and affirmed in Logan v. United States, 144 U. S. 263, 283-295, and in the earlier decisions there reviewed, the result of which may be summed up as follows:
The United States are a nation, whose powers of government, legislative, executive and judicial, within the sphere of action confided to it by the Constitution, are supreme and paramount. Every right, created by, arising under, or dependent upon the Constitution, may be protected.and enforced by such means and in such manner as Congress, in the exercise of the correlative duty of…
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