Case Name: THE CASE OF ELI CROZIER
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1832
Citations: 1 Harr. 33
Docket Number: 
Parties: THE CASE OF ELI CROZIER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 33–33

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.