Case ID: del_1/html/0033-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Habeas Corpus.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE CASE OF ELI CROZIER.
    If constable takes the body to prison, he must leave a certified copy of the execution to authorize the prisoner’s detention.
   Habeas Corpus.

The petitioner was committed on execution process from a justice of the peace. The objection was to the form of the mittimus.

The Act of Assembly authorizes the detention of a prisoner on a certified copy of the writ of execution. The process upon which deft, was detained, was a printed blank warrant, filled up by the constable, and indorsed “committed May, 7, 1832, by Jno. Rudolph, cons’t.”

The court discharged the prisoner on the ground, that this was not a certificate that it was a copy of the original execution.