 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1924 - 634 pages
...by virtue of a Federal Statute which extended the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus to persons "in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States." This act was embraced therein since the Board of State Canvassers was authorized by law to determine... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1924 - 1392 pages
...color of the authority of the United States, or ia committed for trial before some court thereof; or ia in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of tho United States, or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof;, or is in custody... | |
 | 1925 - 736 pages
...section we have recited. This view of the subject is confirmed by the alternative provision, that he must be in custody ' for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof, or is in custody in violation of the... | |
 | Charles Willis Needham - 1925 - 772 pages
...section we have recited. This view of the subject is confirmed by the alternative provision, that he must be in custody "for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof, or is in custody in violation of the... | |
 | James Hart - 1925 - 354 pages
...section we have recited. This view of the subject is confirmed by the alternative provision, that he must be in custody ' for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof, or is in custody in violation of the... | |
 | United States - 1926 - 668 pages
...color of the authority of the United States, or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof; or is in custody in violation of the... | |
 | 1877 - 658 pages
...highest authority in this land. It would seem from this reasoning, then, that the relatora are actually " in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States." This would give them what seems to me to be a clear and undoubted right to the writ; and unless there... | |
 | United States - 1928 - 652 pages
...color of the authority of the United States, or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof; or is in custody in violation of the... | |
 | 1927 - 324 pages
...of the authority of the United States, or is committed for trial before some court thereof ; or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof ; or is in custody in violation of the... | |
 | United States - 1930 - 1514 pages
...color of the authority of the United States, or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof; or is in custody in violation of the... | |
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States, or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States... 
