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NEW YORK EX REL. BRYANT v. ZIMMERMAN

No. 2.

278 U.S. 63 (1928)

49 S.Ct. 61

73 L.Ed. 184

NEW YORK EX REL. BRYANT v. ZIMMERMAN ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 19, 1928.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. John H. Connaughton, Wm. F. Zumbrunn, and Wm. B. Brown submitted for plaintiff in error.

Messrs. Albert Ottinger, Attorney General of New York, John H. Clogston, Deputy Attorney General, Walter F. Hofheins, and Guy B. Moore submitted for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

The relator, Bryant, who was held in custody to answer a charge of violating a statute of New York, brought a proceeding in habeas corpus in a court of that State to obtain his discharge on the ground, as was stated in the petition, that the warrant under which he was arrested and detained was issued without any jurisdiction, in that the statute which he was charged with violating was unconstitutional.<...

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