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UNITED STATES v. SHIPP

No. 12, Original.

203 U.S. 563 (1906)

UNITED STATES v. SHIPP.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 24, 1906.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General with whom The Attorney General was on the brief, for the United States:

Mr. Judson Harmon, Mr. Lewis Shepherd, Mr. G.W. Chamlee and Mr. Robert B. Cooke, with whom Mr. Robert Pritchard, Mr. Martin A. Fleming and Mr. T.P. Shepherd were on the brief, for defendants.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an information charging a contempt of this court and is to the following effect. On February 11, 1906, one Johnson, a colored man, was convicted of rape upon a white woman, in a criminal court of Hamilton County, in the State of Tennessee, and was sentenced to death. On March 3 he presented a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to the United States Circuit...

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