Ex parte Crawford

DALLAS, Circuit Judge.

The United States District Judge for (he Middle District of Pennsylvania, sitting in the Circuit Court for that district, awarded a warrant of arrest under the Pennsylvania statute of July 12, 1842 (P. L. p. 339), in pursuance whereof George FI. Crawford was committed to jail. The jurisdiction of the Circuit Court to do this being denied, we allowed a writ of habeas corpus, and upon its return the case thereby presented was argued by counsel, and having been duly considered by us, is now for adjudication. It should be promptly disposed of, and to avoid delay we will but…