JURNEY v. MacCRACKEN

No. 339.

294 U.S. 125 (1935)

JURNEY v. MacCRACKEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 4, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Leslie C. Garnett, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, with whom Mr. H.L. Underwood, Assistant United States Attorney, was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Frank J. Hogan, with whom Messrs. Edmund L. Jones, and Duke M. Patrick were on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This petition for a writ of habeas corpus was brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by William P. MacCracken, Jr., against Chesley W. Jurney, the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate of the United States. The writ issued; the body of the petitioner was produced before that court; and the case was then heard...

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