June 16, 1922 - August 11, 1923
Petitioned on July 10, 1923
Filed before the US District Court for the Lincoln Division of the District of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)
Case ID: hc.case.ne.1490
In the spring of 1922, James Ingoldsby was extradited from Texas to Otoe County, Nebraska to respond to accusations that he had forged and uttered a check two years earlier. He was convicted of both charges and sentenced to a minimum of ten years in the state penitentiary in accordance with recent changes to state law. When Ingoldsby's appeal to the state supreme court was unsuccessful, he petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court. He argued that his trial, and especially his sentencing, had been marred by ex post facto applications of new statutes. After hearing the evidence, he was remanded to the custody of the warden.
Writ denied
Remained in custody
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009, U.S. District Court for the Lincoln Division of the District of Nebraska, Series: Judge's Dockets, 6/3/1897-12/30/1911, Vol. 2: May 1917 - May 1930, p. 54; Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009, U.S. District Court for the Lincoln Division of the District of Nebraska (1907- ), Series: Law Case Files, 1907-1938, No. 429 Law
U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, para. 3.|U.S. Const. art. I, § 10, para. 1.|U.S. Const. art. IV, § 2, para. 2|U.S. Const. amend. V|Section 9152, Rev. St. Neb. 1913|Section 10248, Comp. St. Neb. 1922|1875 Constitution of the State of Nebraska|Seaton v. State, 109 Neb., 192 N.W. 501
Hoyt, R. C. (clerk)
McClay, J. H. (deputy clerk)
Kavanaugh, O. G. (notary public)
McKelvie, S. R. (governor of Nebraska)
Neff, Pat M. (governor of Texas)
Miller, John C. (clerk)
Fischer, E. H. (sheriff)
Bird, Ernest (deputy sheriff)
Keegan, F. R. (attorney)
Davis, William C. (foreman)
Livingston, D. W. (attorney)
Bayerlein, Frieda C. (notary public)
Heinke, George H. (attorney)
Benson, Thomas P. (unspecified)
Long, George E. (witness)
Freichs, Theodore (witness)
Wood, Charles E. (witness)
Lane, Ray (witness)
Shane, W. O. (witness)
Kuse, F. C. (witness)
Kuse, Ed (witness)
Buckridge, Tom (witness)
Kuse, John (witness)
Wagner, Fred W. (witness)
Asa, C. M. (witness)
Quinton, C. D. (witness)
Cole, A. G. (witness)
Stocker, A. E. (witness)
Teten, Harvey (witness)
Marnell, R. O. (witness)
Shewell, James T. (witness)
Wilson, Harry (witness)
Schnieder, Otto (witness)
Catron, Henry (witness)
Eiser, John M. (witness)
Gardner, Edwin (witness)
Fulriede, Mark (witness)
Pitzer, W. H. (witness)
Fischer, E. H. (witness)
Bischof, A. A. (witness)
Miller, Ray (witness)
Hoeman, Freda (witness)
Stevenson, Julian (witness)
Hoeman, Victor (witness)
Fricke, F. G. (witness)
Fricke, E. A. (witness)
Du Teil, Bertha (notary public)
Cronin, D. H. (U.S. marshal)
McClung, J. C. (deputy U.S. marshal)
Morrissey, Andrew M. (chief justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court)
Rose, William B. (justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court)
Aldrich, Chester Hardy (justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court)
Colby, (judge)
Redick, (judge)
Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “James G. V. Ingoldsby, Plaintiff v. W. T. Fenton, Warden State Penitentiary of the State of Nebraska, Defendant.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 21, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/cases/item/hc.case.ne.1490