In Re Rapier
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. These were three applications to inis court for leave to file petitions for writs of habeas corpus. Leave was granted, March 9, 1891, and the petitions were made returnable on the third Monday of the' next April. They were duly returned, and were on the 27th of April assigned for argument at the present term.
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ORIGINAL. These were three applications to inis court for leave to file petitions for writs of habeas corpus. Leave was granted, March 9, 1891, and the petitions were made returnable on the third Monday of the' next April. They were duly returned, and were on the 27th of April assigned for argument at the present term. The prayer in each case was for a discharge from arrest for an alleged violation of the provisions of section 3894 of the "Revised Statutes, as amended by the act of September 19, 1890, 26 Stat. 465, c. 908-, generally known as the anti-lottery act, which is .printed in the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
the court.
We are constrained by the circumstances in which we find ourselves placed' by the illness and death of Mr. Justice Brad ley, to whom the preparation of the opinion in these oases was committed, to waive any elaboration of our views, and confine ourselves to the expression of the general grounds on which our decision proceeds.
These are applications for discharge by writ of habeas corpus from arrest for alleged violations of an act of Congress, approved September 19,1890, entitled “ An act to amend pertain sections of the Eevised Statutes relating to lotteries, and for other…
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