Ex parte Coupland
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from the judgment of Chief Justice Wheeler, sitting in chambers at Austin.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
The relator (Coupland) applied to the Chief Justice on the 16th of July, 1862, in vacation, for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he was illegally restrained of his liberty by R. T. P. Allen, in Travis county, as he believed, “without any order or process whatever, or any color of either.” The writ issued, and Allen made return, that the relator was placed originally in his custody by order of R. J. Townes, Provost Marshal *389of Travis county; but that before the service of the writ upon him, the relator had been enrolled as a soldier of the Confederate States, as a conscript, under the Act…
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