Legal Opinion
Ex parte Houghton
District Court, D. Vermont
Decided June 14, 1881PublishedCited by 4 opinions
Habeas corpus proceeding to release the relator, Houghton, who was convicted and sentenced by a state court to imprisonment upon an indictment for passing a counterfeit national bank note. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Wheeler, I). J.
This is a motion by the relator for a discharge on habeas corpus from imprisonment in a prison of the state, under sentence of a court of the state for passing counterfeited national bank bills, on the ground that the state court had no jurisdiction over this offence, and that the imprisonment is contrary to the constitution and laws of the United States.
The constitution of the United States provides:
“Article 6. This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall he made in pursuance thereof, * * * shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every state…
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