Ex parte Reaves’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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1. ““Be it remembered that at the present term of the Circuit Court for the Middle District of Alabama came on to be heard the petition of P. A. Reaves, who sued out a writ of habeas corpus to regain the custody of his minor son, E. L. Reaves, held by the chief of police of the city of Montgomery, Alabama, as a deserter from the navy; the writ having been issued by the court. The chief of police made return on the 5th of January, 1903, as set forth in the record, the hearing of which, by consent, was set for the 15th day of January, 1903; and the matter was held -under advisement until the 16th day of February, 1903, by consent. On that day the court announced its opinion sustaining the demurrer, adjudging that the minor was illegally detained, and that the petitioner, the father of the minor, was entitled to his custody and control. Immediately upon this announcement being made in open court, the district attorney of the United States made known to the court that on the 12th day of February, 1903, that the Secretary of the Navy had preferred formal charges, with specifications, against the said E. L. Reaves for desertion and fraudulent enlistment, which charges had been formally served upon the prisoner, which said charges and specifications are ordered to be made a part of this bill of exceptions, as Exhibit A. Thereupon it was agreed in open court that the return should be considered as amended, and as embodying in it the facts of the preferring of such charges, and their serv”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Reaves