Glidden v. Mechanics' National Bank

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, absent proper declaration of martial law, a secessionist saboteur who is not himself an enemy belligerent may not be tried by military tribunal within the territorial jurisdiction of United States District Court
• explaining that the ―suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus does not suspend the writ itself‖ but instead removes ―the right of proceeding any further with it‖ until the end of the suspension
• holding that “cases” and “causes” are “convertible terms”
• explaining why the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial is, commensurate with the language of the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury, excepted from those in the land and naval forces
• prohibiting the military trial of civilians in Indiana during the Civil War
• Sixth Amendment right to jury trial limited to persons subject to indictment or presentment in civilian courts under Fifth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).