Legal Opinion
Ex parte Drayton
District Court, D. South Carolina
Decided May 23, 1907PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus.
1Opinion of the Court
BRAWLEY, District Judge.
The above-named petitioners, negroes and twin brothers, then on the chain gang in Charleston county, applied to this court for a writ of habeas corpus, and the return of the sheriff of the county, duly filed, is “that he holds the within-named Enoch Drayton and Elijah Drayton under a commitment by Magistrate T. A. Beckett, Charleston county, on a charge of violation of contract.”
It appears from the transcript of the testimony taken by the stenographer of this circuit that upon the trial before the above-named magistrate, R. Lebby Clement, of Wadmalaw Island, the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Allgeyer v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fé Railway Co. v. EllisSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Robertson v. BaldwinSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Pollock v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Ex Parte HollmanSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1908
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- Wicks v. Southern Pacific Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1956
- Pollock v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1944