Legal Opinion
In re Garvey
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided October 15, 1884PublishedCited by 22 opinions
In the Supreme Court. Petition for habeas corpus; the facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The petitioner, who is imprisoned to answer, to an indictment for manslaughter, now pending in the criminal court of Arapahoe county, prays to be discharged of his imprisonment under the provisions of the eighth section of the Habeas Corpus Act (General Statutes, p. 535), which is in the words following:
“If any person shall be committed for a criminal or supposed criminal matter and not admitted to bail, and shall not be tried on or before the second term of the court having jurisdiction of the offense, the prisoner shall be set at liberty by the court unless the delay shall happen on the…
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