Ex parte Hamilton
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the decision of Hon. T. E. Cooper, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, on habeas corpus. On the 20th of August, 1887, a petition was presented to the Hon. A. Gf.
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Appeal from the decision of Hon. T. E. Cooper, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, on habeas corpus. On the 20th of August, 1887, a petition was presented to the Hon. A. Gf. Mayers, judge of the eighth judicial district, in the following language: “The petition of Jones S. Hamilton and L. Mims Eubanks respectfully states unto your Honor: “That, at the June term, 1887, of the circuit court for the first district of Hinds County, an indictment was presented by the Grand Jury of said Hinds County to said court, charging your petitioners with the murder of R. D. Gambrell, and upon said indictment…
1ConcurrenceArnold, J.
I concur in the opinion just read, and on the main issue involved say that Section 2534 of the Code declares that “ the judgment rendered on the trial of any writ of habeas corpus shall be conclusive until reversed, and while so in force shall be a bar to another habeas corpus in the same cause, or to any other proceedings to bring the same matter again in question, •except by appeal or by action for false imprisonment; nor shall *144any person so discharged be afterwards confined for the same cause, except by a court of competent jurisdiction.”
The effect of this statute is to make the judgment…
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- Ex parte BridewellMississippi Supreme Court · 1879
- Ex parte NicholsMississippi Supreme Court · 1884