Legal Opinion

Ex parte Brown

District Court, E.D. North Carolina

Decided September 15, 1905Published

Habeas Corpus.

1Opinion of the CourtPurnell, District Judge

(orally). It will be noted that the writs in these cases were issued on a day when the Circuit and District Courts were both regularly opened and upon petition which showed that citizens of the state were restrained of their liberties. In basing an argument as to jurisdiction, counsel are inadvertent to the law as enacted in section 609, Rev. St. [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 494], and decided in Robinson v. Satterlee, 3 Sawy. 134, Fed. Cas. No. 11,967, and In re Circuit Court, 1 Dill. 1, Fed. Cas. No. 2,728. Section 752, Rev. St. [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 592], provides the several justices and…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Callan v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  2. Clyatt v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
  3. Robinson v. SatterleeU.S. Circuit Court for the District of California · 1874
  4. Jamison v. WimbishDistrict Court, S.D. Georgia · 1904
  5. In re Circuit CourtU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Missouri · 1870

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