In re Farrand

BALLARD, District Judge.

On December 9 the relator, Charles E. Farrand, presented to this court a petition showing that he was held in confinement by Thomas Fowler, marshal of the city of Newport, “for an act done or omitted to be done in pursuance of a law of the United States,” and praying for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition, on its face, presenting a case which clearly entitled the relator to relief under the provisions of section 7 of the act of congress of March 2, 1833 [supra], and perhaps also under the act of February 5, 1867 [14 Stat. 885], the writ was issued, directed to the…