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Townsend v. Babbitt

77 Mass. 468
CourtMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
DecidedOctober 15, 1858
StatusPublished

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Bluebook
Townsend v. Babbitt, 77 Mass. 468 (Mass. 1858).

Opinion

By the Court.

The court are of opinion that, according tt the ancient practice in Massachusetts, the original mittimus should be left with the jailer, as evidence of his authority to aold the prisoner.

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