Case of Electoral College
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina
1Opinion of the Court
BOND, Circuit Judge.
Upon tile petition of several persons, styling themselves the “Board of State Canvassers of South Carolina,” which was presented to me- on the first day of the regular term, I issued a writ of habeas corpus commanding the sheriff of Richland county, in whose county they were alleged to be, to produce the bodies of the petitioners before me, that I might inquire into the legality of their imprisonment.
This is a motion to dismiss the petition and remand the petitioners into the custody of u»e sheriff.
Section 755, tit 13, Rev. St. U. S., provides that “the court or justice to…
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