In re Hacker

WELLBORN, District Judge.

Petitioner shows that he is held in custody of the United States marshal of this district to answer an indictment against him in this court for unlawfully cutting timber upon public lands of the United States, contrary to section 4 of the act of June 3,1878, relating to public lands of the United States. 1 Supp. Eev. St. 168. The indictment, a copy of which is attached to and made a part of the petition, fails to allege an intent upon the part of the defendant, the petitioner herein, to export or dispose of the timber which he is charged with having cut on the public…