Legal Opinion

Benson v. McMahon

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 14, 1888No. 1420PublishedCited by 153 opinions

APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was an appeal from a judgment denying a discharge . to a prisoner, on a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner appealed. The case is stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Mb’. Justice Miller

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York upon a writ of habeas corpus, in which that court remanded the prisoner to the custody of the marshal of the district.

The proceedings were originally instituted by a complaint, made before Samuel H. Lyman, a United States commissioner for the Circuit Court of that district, by one Juan N. Navarro, consul general of the Republic of ■ Mexico at the city of New York, against George Benson, whom he charged with being guilty of the…

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