Glover's case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Habeas corpus to the sheriff of Suffolk, issued on December 27, 1871, upon the petition of William A. Glover, verified by his oath, which represented that he was unlawfully deprived of his liberty by the sheriff at the county jail; that the sheriff was holding him to answer to an indictment returned into the superior court for criminal business in Suffolk at May term 1871 of that court, wherein he was charged with being an accessory before the fact to breaking and entering a…
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Habeas corpus to the sheriff of Suffolk, issued on December 27, 1871, upon the petition of William A. Glover, verified by his oath, which represented that he was unlawfully deprived of his liberty by the sheriff at the county jail; that the sheriff was holding him to answer to an indictment returned into the superior court for criminal business in Suffolk at May term 1871 of that court, wherein he was charged with being an accessory before the fact to breaking and entering a building in Boston with intent to steal therein; “ that said indictment was found in May 1871, and he was arraigned…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
The statute, Gen. Sts. a. 171, § 30, which entitles the prisoner to require that he be tried “ at the next term of the court after the expiration of six months from the time when he was imprisoned,” is intended'for his protection against imprisonment upon a criminal charge, without opportunity, within a reasonable time, to meet the proofs upon which it is made, and obtain deliverance by a verdict in his favor. The next term after the expiration of six months is specified as fixing the period beyond which he cannot be detained without such an opportunity of trail, if he demands it; and not as…
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