MEDLEY

No. 5, Original.

134 U.S. 160 (1890)

MEDLEY, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 3, 1890.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Walter Van Rensselaer Berry and Mr. Henry Wise Garnett (with whom was Mr. A.T. Britton on the brief) for the petitioner.

Mr. Henry M. Teller, and Mr. Aaron W. Jones, attorney general of the State of Colorado, submitted on their brief.


MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an application to this court by James J. Medley for a writ of habeas corpus, the object of which is to relieve him from the imprisonment in which he is held by J.A. Lamping, warden of the state penitentiary of the State of Colorado.

The petitioner is held a prisoner under sentence of death pronounced by the District Court of the Second District of the State of Colorado for the county of...

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