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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1858

Townsend v. Babbitt

Townsend v. Babbitt
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 15, 1858
77 Mass. 468
Townsend v. Babbitt

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The court are of opinion that, according tt the ancient practice in Massachusetts, the original mittimus should be left with the jailer, as evidence of his authority to aold the prisoner.* Petition dismissed.

But see St. 1859, c. 233; Gen. Sts. c 174, § 22.

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