Ex parte Wood
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western North Carolina
Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus.
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCHARD, Circuit Judge.
This is an application of the petitioner, Jas. H. Wood, to be discharged on a writ of habeas corpus from the custody of the sheriff of Buncombe county. The petitioner was indicted on a charge of having violated the provisions of section 4 of an act passed at the session of the Legislature of North Carolina of 1907 (Pub. Laws 1907, p. 250, c. 216) prescribing the maximum charges railroad companies may make for transporting passengers in North Carolina, tried and convicted, and sentenced to a term of 30 days’ imprisonment to be worked upon the public roads of Buncombe…
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