People Ex Rel. Steckler v. Warden of City Prison

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “At common law it was held that the courts were not bound to take judicial notice of a pardon procured by the king’s letters patent, but that it was otherwise in the case of a pardon by act of parliament.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).