State v. Judge of the Commercial Court
Supreme Court of Louisiana
This case comes up on an application for a mandamus to compel the judge of the Commercial Court to grant an appeal from his decision, refusing a writ of, habeas corpus.
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This case comes up on an application for a mandamus to compel the judge of the Commercial Court to grant an appeal from his decision, refusing a writ of, habeas corpus. The petitioner, John N. Stiles, free man of color, having been arrested and committed to prison on a warrant from the Honorable Joshua Baldwin, Recorder of the Second Municipality of the city of New-Orleans, for having failed to leave the State of Louisiana, after having been notified to depart and forever to remain out of the same, in contravention of “an act [of the legislature] to prevent free persons of color from entering…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
John N. Stiles, a free man of color, imprisoned under the “act to prevent free persons of color from entering into this state, and for other purposes, approved March 16, 1830,” applied for a writ of habeas corpus, which was denied him, on the ground “that the subject of the colored population of the United States is, by the constitution of the United States, referred to the legislation of each separate state, and that the law under which the party is arrested, is not opposed to the constitution of the United States, and is essentially necessary to the police and self-protection of the…
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