4 Binn. 483
Decided July 16, 1812
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1812-07-16
This was a habeas corpus to the keeper of the debtor’s apartment, to bring up the body of Henry Thatcher. By the return it appeared that Thatcher was in custody at the suit of William J. Rayfield in the District Court of the city and county of Philadelphia, having been surrendered by his bail.
Decided 1812-07-16
¶1The law protects the petitioner from arrest on mesne or final process, but there was no arrest here. He was in the custody of his bail before his provisional discharge, and there has been no arrest since.
¶2Prisoner remanded.
¶3[Obsolete, the act of 13 March 1812, 5 Sm. L. 319, under which Commonwealth v. Cornman was decided, being no longer in force.]