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EX PARTE HUDGINGS

No. 27, Original.

249 U.S. 378 (1919)

39 S.Ct. 337

63 L.Ed. 656

EX PARTE HUDGINGS, PETITIONER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 14, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Jesse Fuller, Jr., for petitioner.

The Solicitor General for respondent.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

After hearing and leave granted on a rule to show cause, this petition for habeas corpus seeking the discharge of the petitioner from custody under a commitment for contempt was filed. The grounds for discharge were, that the court had exceeded its jurisdiction by punishing as a contempt an act which it had no power to so punish, and that even if the act punished was susceptible of being treated as a contempt...

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