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IN RE WIGHT

No. 1521.

134 U.S. 136 (1890)

10 S.Ct. 487

33 L.Ed. 865

In re WIGHT, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 3, 1890.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry M. Duffield for appellant.

Mr. Solicitor General, for appellees, submitted on his brief, which adopted verbatim the brief by Mr. Charles T. Wilkins, the attorney for the United States in the court below.

MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Michigan discharging a writ of habeas corpus on a hearing before that court. By this writ the appellant here, Charles H. Wight, sought to be relieved from imprisonment in the Detroit House of Correction, under sentence of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. The petitioner was indicted...

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