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RAPEER v. COLPOYS

No. 6556.

85 F.2d 715 (1936)

RAPEER v. COLPOYS, United States Marshal (RAPEER, Intervener).

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided August 10, 1936.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond M. Hudson and Minor Hudson, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Leslie C. Garnett, U. S. Atty., and Allen J. Krouse and Samuel F. Beach, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of Washington, D. C., for appellee John B. Colpoys.

Jean M. Boardman, of Washington, D. C., for intervenor Frances C. Rapeer.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, GRONER, and STEPHENS, Associate Justices.

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal by Louis Win Rapeer from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia discharging a writ of habeas corpus. The question presented is the validity of a judgment of contempt whereunder the appellant was committed to the Washington Asylum and Jail.

The material facts are undisputed: On June 24, 1924, Frances C. Rapeer, intervenor below and one of the appellees here, was granted by the Circuit Court of...

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