Ex parte Hickey
Mississippi Supreme Court
On the 10th day of June, 1844, while the circuit court of Warren county was in session, in which an indictment was pending against Daniel W. Adams,' Esq. for the killing of Dr. James Hagan, the following article appeared as editorial in “ The Vicksburg Sentinel,” a newspaper published daily in the city of Vicksburg, in that county : “ Judge Coalter and the murderer of Hagan. — We have information, from the most undoubted authority, that immediately after the grand jury of…
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On the 10th day of June, 1844, while the circuit court of Warren county was in session, in which an indictment was pending against Daniel W. Adams,' Esq. for the killing of Dr. James Hagan, the following article appeared as editorial in “ The Vicksburg Sentinel,” a newspaper published daily in the city of Vicksburg, in that county : “ Judge Coalter and the murderer of Hagan. — We have information, from the most undoubted authority, that immediately after the grand jury of Warren county brought in a true bill against Adams, for murder in the. first degree, for killing Dr. James Hagan, District…
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delivered the following opinion.:
This is an application for the discharge under the writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum,
*769The facts of the case are in brief as follows : —The petitioner, as editor of a public journal, called the Yicksburg Sentinel and Expositor, published an article in his paper reflecting upon the judicial conduct of the judge of the circuit court of Warren county, pending a capital trial. An attachment for contempt was issued against him, and upon interrogatories addressed and answered, the petitioner was, by the court, ordered to be imprisoned for the term of five months,…
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