U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia, 1809

Ex parte Ben

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia · Decided April 10, 1809 · Cranch, Fitzhugh

3 F. Cas. 154; 1 Cranch 532; 1809 U.S. App. LEXIS 225

Opinion of the Court

THE COURT, then consisting of

CRANCH, Chief Judge, and FITZHUGH, Circuit Judge,

being divided in opinion, the prisoner was remanded.

But at June term, 1809, the prisoner was brought up again by habeas corpus, and the court being full he was discharged, THE COURT (FITZHUGH, Circuit Judge, contra), being of opinion that the writ of error could not be served so as to be a supersedeas, unless a copy thereof should be lodged in the clerk’s office for the adverse party within ten days after the judgment.

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