In Re Lane
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. This was a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The ease is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This is a petition by Charles’ Mason Lane, addressed to the original jurisdiction of this court, for a writ of habeas corpus. Upon the filing of the petition a rule was issued upon .Charles Ii. Case, warden of the penitentiary of the State of Kansas, who, it was alleged, held the petitioner in unlawful imprisonment. Case made a return to this rule, in which he said that the prisoner was held under a mittimus issued from the office of the clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the District of Kansas, and accompanying the return was a certified copy of the proceedings in…
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