Mr. Justice Lurton, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the Gourt. A writ of habeas corpus cannot be used as a writ of error. If Judge Blair had jurisdiction of the person of the accused and of the subject-matter, and had before him competent legal evidence of the c…
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