Supreme Court of Puerto Rico March 15, 1904, No. 29 (Ex parte Bird)

lead-opinion

Mr. Justice MacLeary

delivered the following opinion of the court:

*509On the 4th of this month Hobart S. Bird made application to Hon. José S. Quiñones, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Porto Pico; for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he had been arrested on said date by an officer of the District Court of San Juan and detained in custody, in accordance with a certain