Knapp v. Thomas
Ohio Supreme Court
Habeas Corpus. Isaac Knapp, at tbe October term, 1877, of tbe court of common pleas of Sandusky county, was convicted of murder in tbe second degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
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Habeas Corpus. Isaac Knapp, at tbe October term, 1877, of tbe court of common pleas of Sandusky county, was convicted of murder in tbe second degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. He remained in tbe penitentiary from October 19, 1877, until October 19, 1882, when lie received and accepted a full, unconditional pardon of that date, under the great seal of the state, issued and delivered to him by his Excellency, Charles Foster, Governor of Ohio, and was thereupon discharged from imprisonment and returned to his homo in Sandusky county. On January 23, 1883, the governor, by an…
1Opinion of the CourtOkey, J.
Knapp, by reason of his conviction, became a felon, and was adjudged to undergo servitude and submit to discipline of the most onerous character, within the four walls of a prison, and that for life. At common law his testimony could not have been received in any cause, in any state; and not only was he “ incompetent to be an elector or a juror, or *381to hold any office of honor, trust or profit ” (Rev. Stats. § 6797), but he was deprived, for life, of all civil rights, and was indeed civilly dead. By force of the pardon, however, which was full and unconditional in terms, he was “ restored to…
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