2 Whart. 440
Decided April 8, 1837
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1837-04-08
On a habeas corpus to the keeper of the prison of the county of Philadelphia, to bring up the body of Charles M'Donald, it appeared that the prisoner was in custody under several sentences of the Recorder’s Court of the Northern Liberties, &c. at February term, •1837, viz. one for keeping a tippling house, and five for assaults and batteries.
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Decided 1837-04-08
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1898
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¶1said that the costs being the property of the several officers to whom they wrere payable, could not be remitted by the Governor, who could only absolve from the imprisonment for the offence; and therefore, independently of the variance between the convictions and pardons, the prisoner was not entitled to be discharged.
¶2Prisoner remanded.