IN RE BONNER

No. 8. Original.

151 U.S. 242 (1894)

14 S.Ct. 323

38 L.Ed. 149

In re BONNER, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 15, 1894.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John C. Chaney, (with whom was Mr. William J. Rannells on the brief,) for petitioner.

Mr. Solicitor General opposing.


MR. JUSTICE FIELD, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The petitioner asks for the issue of the writ of habeas corpus in order that he may be thereby set at liberty, on the ground that his imprisonment in the penitentiary at Anamosa in Iowa is in pursuance of a judgment of a court which possessed no authority under the law to pass sentence upon him of imprisonment in the state penitentiary,...

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