Chapman v. Woodruff
Supreme Court of Georgia
Motion to dismiss certim'ari in Taliaferro Superior Court. Decided by Judge Reese. August Term, 1864. On the application of the plaintiff in error, Chapman, a writ of habeas corpus was issued by one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of Taliaferro county, on the 23d of February 1864, directed to Woodruff, who, as sub-enrolling officer of that county, held Chapman in custody for military service in the army of the Confederate States.
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Motion to dismiss certim'ari in Taliaferro Superior Court. Decided by Judge Reese. August Term, 1864. On the application of the plaintiff in error, Chapman, a writ of habeas corpus was issued by one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of Taliaferro county, on the 23d of February 1864, directed to Woodruff, who, as sub-enrolling officer of that county, held Chapman in custody for military service in the army of the Confederate States. The writ was made returnable on the 26th of the same month, at the court house, and before the Justice who issued it. At the return, the case was heard at…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Jenkins, J.
delivering the opinion.
The case in the Court below was a certiorari sued out in the county of Taliaferro, -for the purpose of reviewing a judgment rendered by the Justices of the Inferior Court of that county, upon a return to a writ of habeas corpus issued by one of them.
Section 3958 of the code prescribes the method in which a writ of certiora/ri shall be obtained, for the correction of any error alleged to have been committed “ by any Inferior Court, or. Court of Ordinary.” Section 3960 prescribes a different method for obtaining the same writ, for the correction of…
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