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EX PARTE WELLS

59 U.S. 307 (1855)

18 How. 307

EX PARTE: IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM WELLS, ON A PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The petition for a habeas corpus was sustained by Mr. Charles Lee Jones, for the petitioner, and opposed by Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General.

Mr. Justice WAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

The petitioner was convicted of murder in the District of Columbia, and sentenced to be hung on the 23d of April, 1852. President Fillmore granted to him a conditional pardon. The material part of it is as follows: "For divers good and sufficient reasons I have granted, and do hereby grant unto him, the said William Wells, a pardon of the offence of which he was convicted — upon condition that he be imprisoned...

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