Legal Opinion

Captain Jack

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 15, 1889No. 8. OriginalPublishedCited by 2 opinions

ORIGINAL. Petition for writ of habeas corpus. The case is stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller

delivered the opinion of the court.-

The only distinctions between this case and that of Gonshay-ee, in which the opinion has just been delivered, are:

First. That Captain Jack was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary of Ohio for thirty years, and the writ must, therefore, be directed to the keeper of that institution at Columbus in that State.

Second. That it appears by the record that in the former case the offence was committed on an Indian reservation, while in the case of Captain Jack the act was done within the judicial district, but not upon such a reservation.

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2Cited by2 opinions

  1. McConnell v. Provident Savings Life Assur. Soc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1895
  2. Noel Dana v. Raymond J. Tracy, Sheriff, Washington CountyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1966

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