In re Neagle
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California
Habeas Corpus. This is an application for the discharge of David Neagle upon a writ of habeas corpms. It arises out of the following facts: On the third of September, 1888, certain cases were pending in the circuit court of the United States for the Northern district of California, between Frederick W. Sharon, as executor, against David S. Terry and Sarah Althea Terry, his wife, and between Francis G. Newlands, as trustee, and others, against the same parties, on demurrers…
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Habeas Corpus. This is an application for the discharge of David Neagle upon a writ of habeas corpms. It arises out of the following facts: On the third of September, 1888, certain cases were pending in the circuit court of the United States for the Northern district of California, between Frederick W. Sharon, as executor, against David S. Terry and Sarah Althea Terry, his wife, and between Francis G. Newlands, as trustee, and others, against the same parties, on demurrers to bills to revive and carry into execution the final decree of the court in the suit of William Sharon v. Sarah Allhea…
1Concurrence
Sawyer, J.,
(Sabin, D. J., concurring.') The petitioner has sued out a writ of habeas corpus, returnable before the court, alleging that he is unlawfully deprived of his liberty and imprisoned by virtue of a warrant issued by a justice of the peace of San Joaquin county, in this state, charging him with a felonious homicide, while the act thus characterized was a lawful act performed in the discharge of his duties as an officer of the United States; and the first question presented is whether this court has jurisdiction to inquire into the truth of that allegation.
Upon the question of…
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- Ex Parte TerrySupreme Court of the United States · 1888
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