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WRIGHT v. HENKEL

No. 661.

190 U.S. 40 (1903)

23 S.Ct. 781

47 L.Ed. 948

WRIGHT v. HENKEL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1903.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Samuel Untermyer and Mr. Louis Marshall for appellant.

Mr. Charles Fox for His Britannic Majesty's consul general at New York, appellee.

Mr. Solicitor Genl. Hoyt, with whom Mr. Assistant Attorney Genl. Purdy was on the brief, on behalf of the United States.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The writ of habeas corpus cannot perform the office of a writ of error, but the court issuing the writ may inquire into the jurisdiction of the committing magistrate in extradition proceedings, Ornelas v. Ruiz, 161 U.S. 502; Terlinden v. Ames,

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