In Re Chapman
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpxts, filed on leave, and a rule thereon entered, to which return was duly made. The petition alleges as follows: That petitioner is a citizen of the United States and a resident of the city of New York, in the State of New York, and that he is now restrained of his liberty by the marshal of the United States for the District of Columbia.
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ORIGINAL. This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpxts, filed on leave, and a rule thereon entered, to which return was duly made. The petition alleges as follows: That petitioner is a citizen of the United States and a resident of the city of New York, in the State of New York, and that he is now restrained of his liberty by the marshal of the United States for the District of Columbia. That on the first of October, 1894, in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding a criminal term, the grand jury empanelled in said court at said term thereof found an indictment against…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
It is insisted that the Supreme Court of' the District of Columbia, sitting as a criminal court, had no jurisdiction; that .the questions were not authorized under the Constitution ; and that the act of Congress under which petitioner was indicted and tried is unconstitutional.
Sections 102, 103 and 104, and section 859, of the Revised Statutes, are as follows :
“ Sec. 102. Every person who, having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress, to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House, or any committee of either House of…
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