People v. Conant
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to St. Clair. (Stevens, J.) The people sued out a writ of error to review the order of a circuit judge discharging an escaped prisoner from the House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia, who had been re-arrested for the purpose of being returned to the prison to serve out his un expired sentence. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
This case comes into this Court by writ of error, to review the proceedings had before Judge Stevens upon a writ of habeas corpus, wherein he discharged the said Conant from the custody of the sheriff of St. Clair county, who held him in charge at the time, under the following circumstances, as he states them in his return to the writ. The following is the return:
“ In obedience to the writ of habeas corpus hereto annexed, I do hereby certify and return to the circuit court for St. Clair county that, before the coming of said writ to me; to wit, on the twenty-fifth day of September, 1885, the…
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