Pettibone v. Nichols

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1906-12-03

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Me. Justice McKenna dissenting. I am constrained to dissent from the opinion and judgment of the court. The- principle announced, as I understand it, is that “ a.Circuit Court of the United States, when asked upon habeas corpus to discharge a person held in actual custody by a State for trial in on'e of its courts under an indictment charging a crime against its laws, cannot properly take into account tâ€Ĥ

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