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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 13,458.
    STINGLE’S CASE.
    District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
    Sept. 4, 1863.
    Akmy — Liability to Draft — Habeas Corpus.
    1. Under the act of March 3, 1863, § 3 (12 Stat. 731], if a married man over thirty-five years of age were enrolled and drafted in the first class, he might be discharged by a federal court on habeas corpus.
    2. A person illegally conscripted into the federal army may be discharged on habeas corpus.
    [Cited in Brightley’s Dig. 51, 440, to the points as given above. Nowhere reported: opinion not now accessible. Decided by CADWALA-DEE., District Judge.]