AN ILLEGAL COURT
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS. AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. (The Times.) LONDON. July 27. An important judgment has been given by the Chancery Division of Dublin, the Master of the Rolls ordering a writ of habeas corpus to deliver the body of Joseph Egan, who was sentenced to death for being in possession of ammunition. It is said that Egan was tried by a court constituted in some way unknown lo military law by military officers. This court had no legal status whatever, and the penalty awarded had not the sanction of the English law.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14712, 29 July 1921, Page 5
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96AN ILLEGAL COURT Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14712, 29 July 1921, Page 5
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