Mr Justice STORY delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an application to the court to award a writ of habeas corpus to bring up the body of Tobias Watkins, a prisoner, asserted to be illegally confined in the common jail of Washington county in the district of Columbia, under process of execution issued from the circuit court of the United States for the same district. A rule was served upon the attorney-general, to show cause why the application should not...
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