Noble v. Botkin

Appellant petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court. After hearing, the writ was quashed and the petitioner remanded to the custody of the respondent.

The appellant had been brought to the District of Columbia from the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, on a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequen-dum to stand trial in the sedition case.1 He has since been confined in the District Jail pending completion of the trial for which he had been secured. His petition, dismissed by the court below, challenges the authority of the District Court to issue a writ of habeas…