Dimmick v. Tompkins
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN- DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. Dimmick, the appellant, presented his petition for á writ of habeas carpus to the Circuit Court of the United States, Northern District of California. The petition was. denied and an appeal taken to this court from the. order denying the application.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN- DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. Dimmick, the appellant, presented his petition for á writ of habeas carpus to the Circuit Court of the United States, Northern District of California. The petition was. denied and an appeal taken to this court from the. order denying the application. The appellant alleged in his petition- for the writ that •he was unlawfully imprisoned in the state prison of the State of California; that the imprisonment was illegal and in contravention of the Constitution of the United States, Article Five' of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The appeal directly to this court from the decision of the Circuit Court denying the writ of habeas corpus was proper under the averments contained in' the petition, that the imprisonment of the appellant was in violation of the Federal Constitution. Craemer v. Washington State, 168 U. S. 124, 127.
The appellant contends that, as his sentence was imprisonment “at hard labor for the term of two years from Octo- . ber 16, 1901,” his term of imprisonment under that sentence necessarily expired by its own limitation on October 16, 1903, even without any deduction for credits earned by good…
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