Gillespie v. Walker
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of'the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Charleston;. George W. McClintic, Judge. . Habeas corpus by G. T. Gillespie against Henry A. Walker, Sheriff of Kanawha County, W. Va. A discharge of petitioner was refused, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILL, Circuit Judge.
This is a habeas corpus proceeding in which plaintiff in error avers that he is unlawfully restrained of his liberty by the defendant in error, acting pursuant to a judgment of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia at Charleston, and prays that he may be discharged by this court. The case presented on the pleadings is briefly as ■ follows:
Plaintiff in error was proceeded against by information containing two counts; the first charging the unlawful possession of intoxicating *331liquors, the quantity and kind of which was unknown…
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