In Re Loney
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM -THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. This was a writ of habeas eorpu ?, granted upon the petition of Wilson Loney, by the Circuit Court of the United States, to the police sergeant of the city of Eichmond, in the State of Yirginia, who- justified his detention of the prisoner under a warrant of arrest from a justice of the peace for that city upon a complaint charging him with wilful perjury committed on February 2,1889,…
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APPEAL FROM -THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. This was a writ of habeas eorpu ?, granted upon the petition of Wilson Loney, by the Circuit Court of the United States, to the police sergeant of the city of Eichmond, in the State of Yirginia, who- justified his detention of the prisoner under a warrant of arrest from a justice of the peace for that city upon a complaint charging him with wilful perjury committed on February 2,1889, in giving his deposition as a witness before a notary public of the city in the case of á contested election of a member…
1Opinion of the Court
Mu. Justice Gray,
after stating the cáse as above, delivered, the opinion of the court.
Ey the Constitution, the judicial power of the United States is vested in the courts of the United States. Art. 3, sect. 1. By the statutes of the United States, those courts have ’jurisdiction, exclusive of the courts of the several States, of’ “all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States; ” Eev. Stat. § 711, cl. 1; and the Circuit Courts of the United States have exclusive cognizance of all such crimes and offences, except where otherwise provided by law, the principal…
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