United States v. Shipp
Supreme Court of the United States
-INFORMATION IN CONTEMPT. The facts, which involve the lynching of a person held in the custody of a sheriff under -an order of the Federal court and after., an appeal had been allowed by. this court from .an order of the United States Circuit Court denying his petition for habeas'corpus, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
delivered, the opinion of the court.
This was an information filed by the Attorney-General of the ■United States against Joseph F. Shipp and twenty-six other defendants,1 which was dismissed as to eighteen of them and heard as to defendants Shipp, Galloway, Gibson, Nolan, Williams,Justice, Padgett, Mayse and Ward.
The information charged, in substance, that' February 11, 1906, Ed Johnson, a negro, was convicted .of Tape by the criminal court of Hamilton County, Tenn., held in Chattanooga,^ and was sentenced-to death; that on March 3, following, Johnson filed a petition for the writ of habeas…
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