Ex parte Dawson
Decision Date | 05 October 1897 |
Docket Number | 908. |
Citation | 83 F. 306 |
Parties | Ex parte DAWSON. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Eighth Circuit |
W. A Falconer, for appellant.
Before BREWER, Circuit Judge, SANBORN, Circuit Judge, and RINER District Judge.
In November, 1896, L. P. Dawson filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court for the Western district of Arkansas, alleging that he was unlawfully restrained of his liberty by one M. C. Rushin, contrary to the constitution and laws of the United States. The writ was issued, and on the return day the respondent made his return thereto, as follows:
(Great Seal.)
James P. Clarke, 'Governor of Arkansas.'
T. W. Bugg, Sheriff.'
To this return the petition demurred, and the demurrer was overruled. The petitioner then filed a reply to the return, and on the hearing the issues of fact raised by the reply were determined in favor of the respondent, and the petitioner was remanded to the custody of the respondent. Thereupon he prayed an appeal to this court.
The only assignment of error urged upon the attention of the court by the petitioner as a ground for reversing the order of the district court is in the following words:
'It does not appear therein (by the return or the warrant of the governor of Arkansas) that the copy of the indictment accompanying the requisition of the governor of Georgia had been certified by said governor of Georgia to be duly authenticated.'
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