The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-04-11
INDIAN A "sONS OF LIBERTY"
Case of MiiIIgaB, BOwIes and
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U. s. Supreme Court Decide that
--.- They Should be Discharged. d.
Special Dispatch to the Pittsburgh Com
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Special Dispatch to the Pittsburgh Com
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WASHINGTON, April 3alS66.
In the United States Supreme Court to-
day, the Indiana conspiracy cases came up
for decision The Chief Justice said in
case No. $50 ec pafte, the matter oiLambden
p. Miligan, petitioner, the following order
is directed bya majority of the Court to be
entered in this cause, and the like order
will be entered in No. $685. &C parte, in the
matter of William A. Bowles, and in No.
376, cr parte in the matter OF Stephen
Horscy; '@t.'1 ~IR tt-H a1t ha s..a
This cause CAME on to be heard on the
transcript of the record from the Circuit
Court of the United States for the district
of Indiana, and on the points and questions
on which the said judges Of the Circuit
Court were opposed in opinion. and which
were certified to the court for its opinion,
agreeably to the act OF Congress in such
case made and proeided, and was argued
by counsel on consideration whereof, the
court is Of opinion: s1t, ~. .,a
First, That on the facts stated in said pc
titiou and exhibits the writ of hdbeQs cor
pns ought TO be issued according to the
prayer of said petition. &y j rN
~
petition, and exhibits, the said Lambdn p.
MilGgan ought to be, discharged from Gus,
toby, as in said petition is prayed, and &C.
ccrding to the aetef Congress passed March
Sd, 1868, en,itledsGAn act relating to ha
beas, corpus and regulating Judiciary pro-
ceedingsin ccrtaf@ gases. 's7-
| Third, That offtHe facts stated in said
petition and exhibits the military commits
sion mentioned therein, had 30 Jurisdiction
legally to try and sentence said Lambdin +
MilligaB, in manperaUd form as in said pc
tition and exhibits are stated, and it il
thcreupon now hire ordered and adjudgeC
by this Court; that it be certified to thu
said Circuit Court. ..-... .r.<s KILL.
, h. l am Instructed to say .hat the opinion o
ii tie Corit in these cases will be read at tn,
next term, when such Of the dissenting
: Judges as sec fit to do 50. will state th'
; grounds of their dissent. The reason why
| the opinion OF the Court is not dellyeret
! now, is that the cases were reached 10 lat
f in the term that the Court had not time t
. to prepare an opinion. .- ..~.. .E..l,
: An immense crowd were in the court
room, and the delivery Of the opinion wa
: received with the deepest interest.
: The petitioners, it viii be reco'lected
we're condemned to death by Military Com
| mission, on charge of conspiracy, but tn
/ sentences were coNmuted by the Presiden
to Imprisonment for life. They are now i
9 the Ohio Penitentiary The case was hen
i. tofore argned byJudgo Mcdonald, Of II
o diana, General j. A. Garfield, A, 4, O.
Il Hon, j. s. Black, of Pa, and Hon. Davi
: Dudley FL Id, Of N. Y, for petitioners, an
e Gen. Butler, Henry Strausburg, Esq, {
;. O.. and Attorney General Sperd for tn
! United States. The arguments in this in
IS portant case are soon to. be published
is pamphlet form. ,5 n, ~, IA. ms, e..