Ex parte Orozco
District Court, W.D. Texas
Petition for writ of habeas corpus, on relation of Pascual Orozco, Sr., to secure his release from custody of the military authorities of the United States pending investigation to determine whether he could be held for violation of the neutrality laws between the United States and Mexico. The relator, Pascual Orozco, Sr., has presented to the court a petition praying the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus, and bis release from custody. He is now confined at Ft.
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Petition for writ of habeas corpus, on relation of Pascual Orozco, Sr., to secure his release from custody of the military authorities of the United States pending investigation to determine whether he could be held for violation of the neutrality laws between the United States and Mexico. The relator, Pascual Orozco, Sr., has presented to the court a petition praying the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus, and bis release from custody. He is now confined at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Tex., and claims that he was arrested without warrant by the military authorities, and that his detention…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxey, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). While the duty has devolved upon the writer during a long period of judicial service to decide many grave and important questions, he has not been called upon to determine one of more delicacy than that now submitted for consideration. Broadly speaking, the question involves, on the one hand, personal liberty; on the other the power of the President, in the exercise of his constitutional functions, to restrict that liberty. To the solution of the problem thus presented the court has given anxious thought; and, to enable it to reach a satisfactory…
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