Urquhart, Sheriff, v. Brown
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON. This appellee Brown was charged in the Superior Court of Lewis County, Washington, with the crime of murder and was acquitted. The verdict of the jury was: “We, the jury, find-the defendant not guilty, by reason of. insanity.”
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON. This appellee Brown was charged in the Superior Court of Lewis County, Washington, with the crime of murder and was acquitted. The verdict of the jury was: “We, the jury, find-the defendant not guilty, by reason of. insanity.” The verdict having been entered of record, an order was made which recited that the court by reason of the verdict, the evidence, the proceedings in the trial and the demeanor of the defendant, “finds that .the discharge or going at large of said Thomas Brown would be and is…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
It is the settled doctrine of this court that although the Circuit Courts of the United States, and the several justices and judges thereof, have authority, under existing statutes, to" discharge, upon habeas corpus, one held in custody by state authority in violation of the Constitution or of any treaty or law of the United States, the court, justice or judge has a discretion as to the time and mode in which the power so conferred shall be exerted; and that.in view of the relations existing, under our system of government, between the judicial tribunals of the Union and of the several…
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