CHARLTON v. KELLY

No. 232.

229 U.S. 447 (1913)

CHARLTON v. KELLY, SHERIFF OF HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 10, 1913.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. R. Floyd Clarke, with whom Mr. William D. Edwards was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Pierre P. Garven for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE LURTON, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

A writ of habeas corpus cannot be used as a writ of error. If Judge Blair had jurisdiction of the person of the accused and of the subject-matter, and had before him competent legal evidence of the commission of this crime with which the appellant was charged in the complaint, which, according to the law of New Jersey, would...

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