United States ex rel. Drury v. Lewis
United States Supreme Court
United States ex rel. Drury v. Lewis
Argued: December 12, 1905. --- Decided: January 2, 1906
Assistant to the Attorney General Purdy for appellants.
No counsel for appellee.
Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Fuller: Ralph W. Drury and John Dowd were indicted in the court of oyer and terminer for the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on two counts,-the first charging them with murder, and the second with manslaughter, in the homicide of one William H. Crowley, September 10, 1903. They were admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000 each, and having been subsequently surrendered, obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the circuit court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania. The case on the hearing was thus stated by Acheson, J., holding the circuit court:
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