In Re: Cooper
Supreme Court of Vermont
Habeas Corpus brought before the county court at the December Term, .1857, and directed to Silas G. Bean, sheriff of Orleans county.
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Habeas Corpus brought before the county court at the December Term, .1857, and directed to Silas G. Bean, sheriff of Orleans county. The relator stated in his petition that on the 10th of June, 1857, at the trial of one Bergin for petit larceny, before Thomas Guild, Esq., a justice of the peace for Orleans county, the complainant was acting as counsel for Bergin ; that some preliminary question was raised and discussed by the counsel, and decided by Justice Guild, who, after deciding the question, remarked to the complainant that “ it might be convenient enough for Mr. Cooper to have the…
1Opinion of the CourtAldis, J.
The relator brought his writ of habeas corpus before the Orleans county court, at their December Term, 1857, The case was heard upon demurrer to the return of the sheriff and the accompanying papers. The court decided that the rela-> tor was not unlawfully imprisoned. To this decision he excepted, and the case passed to the supreme court.
I. It is objected that a bill of exceptions is not properly allow-, able in such a case; that the proceedings of the county court upon habeas corpus are not to be revised in the supreme court.
Where, as in this case, the petition is brought and the case heard…
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