People ex rel. Boenert v. Barrett
Illinois Supreme Court
Original petition for habeas corpus. At the December term, 1902, of this court, the relator presented his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, directed to Thomas E. Barrett, sheriff of Cook county, to the end that he might be discharged from the custody of the sheriff, who is detaining him by reason of a mittimus issued by the criminal court of Cook county.
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Original petition for habeas corpus. At the December term, 1902, of this court, the relator presented his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, directed to Thomas E. Barrett, sheriff of Cook county, to the end that he might be discharged from the custody of the sheriff, who is detaining him by reason of a mittimus issued by the criminal court of Cook county. Upon consideration of the petition a writ was awarded commanding* the sheriff to cause the relator to be brought before the court, together with the cause of his detention. A return was duly made to the writ at the February term, 1903,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
It is strenuously urged, for the relator, that the long interval of two years and five months that intervened between his release on his own recognizance while his motion for a new trial was pending, and the final disposition of that motion and his remandment to custody, which was followed nearly a month later by a sentence to the penitentiary, was tantamount to an abandonment of the proceeding and a release' from further imprisonment, and that the court thereby lost jurisdiction to enter up a judgment on the verdict.
At common law, upon every conviction in the court of king’s bench of a…
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