Commonwealth v. Perkins
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
WRIT OE HABEAS CORPUS, DIRECTED TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY PRISON. No. 114 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 372 September Term 1887, C. P. No. 3. On November 20, 1888, in vacation, John W. Keely presented before Mr. Justice Steeeett his petition, setting forth in outline certain proceedings upon a bill in equity to the number and term above stated in the Court of Common Pleas No. 3 of Philadelphia county, resulting in the issuance of a warrant…
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WRIT OE HABEAS CORPUS, DIRECTED TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY PRISON. No. 114 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 372 September Term 1887, C. P. No. 3. On November 20, 1888, in vacation, John W. Keely presented before Mr. Justice Steeeett his petition, setting forth in outline certain proceedings upon a bill in equity to the number and term above stated in the Court of Common Pleas No. 3 of Philadelphia county, resulting in the issuance of a warrant for the arrest and commitment of the petitioner, under which he was then held and illegally restrained of his liberty by…
1Opinion of the Court
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.
Opinion, Mr. Chief Justice Paxson:
This was a writ of habeas corpus. The relator complains that he is unlawfully restrained of his liberty by the keeper of the Philadelphia county prison. The respondent makes return that he holds the relator by virtue of the following commitment :
“Be it remembered, that on the 17th day of November, 1888, on motion of--— Esquire, the court ordered: And now the said John W. Keely having been brought into court, by the attachment issued in these proceedings, and having been required by the court to purge himself of the contempt of which he…
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