Stallings v. Splain
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. FIabe as corpus by Deslie C. Stallings against Maurice Splain, United States Marshal for the District of Columbia. From a decree discharging the writ, petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
ROBB, Associate Justice.
This appeal is from a decree in the Supreme Court of the District, discharging the writ of habeas corpus that had issued on appellant’s petition.
Appellant, hereinafter called the petitioner, was arrested in this District on June 10, 1918, on a bench warrant from the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming charging him with embezzlement. On June 11th he filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the court below and was released on bail, pending a hearing. On *511the 27th of June, 1918, a complaint was duly made before a United States commissioner in…
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