The application for the writ alleged that the prisoner, the plaintiff, was being confined in the New Haven county jail and that such confinement was illegal in that his conviction in the state of Virginia deprived him of, and took away from him, his right of trial by jury and in that he was subjected to cruel and inhuman punishments in that state. The defendants, the sheriff of New Haven County and the chief of...
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