Bobby Hardwick v. Ollie Doolittle, Jailer and William Anderson, Sheriff

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1977-10-25

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TUTTLE, Circuit Judge: Twenty two years before Congress in 1867 first authorized federal courts to entertain writs of habeas corpus on behalf of state prisoners, Ex parte Partington, 13 M. W. 679, 683-84, 153 Eng.Rep. 284., 286 (Ex. 1845), described a particularly persistent habeas petitioner: <blockq…

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