R v Collyer and Capon

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of the King's Bench
Judgment Date01 January 1790
Date01 January 1790

English Reports Citation: 96 E.R. 797

COURT OF KING'S BENCH

Rex
and
ers. Collyer and Capon

rex vers, collyer and capon. A person may be discharged upon a habeas corpus from imprisonment under an illegal judgment. The defendants being brought up by a habeas corpus, it appeared ; that they were committed by an order of a Court of Quarter Sessions, holden at Hicks's Hall; and that in the commitment there were the following words: " William Collyer and Edmund Capon, being convicted upon an indictment...

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