Ellison v. Splain
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Habeas corpus proceedings by Edward Ellison against Maurice Splain, United States Marshal in and for the District of Columbia. Application denied, and petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SMYTH, Chief Justice.
Ellison was arrested upon a warrant issued out of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia upon a *248requisition of the Governor of Virginia based on an indictment by the grand jurors of the county of Alexandria, Va., charging that he on September 21, 1916, broke into a certain railroad car with intent to steal goods therein, and that he stole and carried away three cases of shoes, the property of the railway company. Ellison claimed that he was not in Virginia on September 21, 1916; that he did not on that day, or at any other time, commit any offense in Virginia as…
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