In Re Cross
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. This was a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The application was made by "William Douglass Cross, a person indicted and convicted of murder in the District of Columbia. Some previous movements in' this case had been before the court in Cross v. United States,• 145 TJ.
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ORIGINAL. This was a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The application was made by "William Douglass Cross, a person indicted and convicted of murder in the District of Columbia. Some previous movements in' this case had been before the court in Cross v. United States,• 145 TJ. S. 571, and Cross v. BurTce, ante, 82. The present application alleged that the, petitioner was “unlawfully deprived of his liberty and unlawfully imprisoned, confined and detained in the United States jail in the county of Washington, and District of Columbia.” ' The prayer was that he be discharged and set at…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
This is a petition for writs of habeas corpus and certiorari. The matters set up will be found sufficiently reported in Cross v. Burke, ante, 82, and Cross v. United States, 145 U. S. 571. The application to us is in effect the same as that made to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, whose judgment denying the writ of habeas corpus was brought to this court by appeal, upon the hea/ing of which the merits were fully argued, although kwe were obliged to decline jurisdiction. Petitioner contends that' the postponement of the execution of the sentence of death pronounced against him,…
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