Ex parte Reno
Supreme Court of Missouri
Petition for Habeas Corpus. 1. A delivery to the prisoner, or to the Warden, or to any one for the prisoner, is sufficient. Commonwealth v. Holloway, 44 Penn. Stat. 218 ; In- the matter of De Puy, 3 Benedict’s IJ. S. Bist. Ct. 307. 2. Being in possession of the grantee, it is presumed . to have been duly delivered at the time it bears date.
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Petition for Habeas Corpus. 1. A delivery to the prisoner, or to the Warden, or to any one for the prisoner, is sufficient. Commonwealth v. Holloway, 44 Penn. Stat. 218 ; In- the matter of De Puy, 3 Benedict’s IJ. S. Bist. Ct. 307. 2. Being in possession of the grantee, it is presumed . to have been duly delivered at the time it bears date. Billings v. Stark, 15 Ela. 297. 3. Being placed in the hands of a third party by the Governor for the prisoner, there is a delivery, although lost, destroyed or embezzled, while in such hands. Henriehsen v. Hodgen, 67 111. 179. 4. Anything done by the…
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
— This is a proceeding by habeas'corpus, on the part of John Reno, who alleges in his petition that, on' the 16th day of January, 1868, he was convicted-by the circuit court of Daviess county of burglary and larceny, and his punishment assessed at twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary; that he is now confined in said penitentiary by the warden thereof, under said judgment and commitment; that on the 8th day of January, 1873, his sentence and punishment was commuted to ten years imprisonment by B. Gratz Brown, the then Governor; that he has served out his commuted sentence of ten…
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