Ex Parte Dugan

On a mere petition for a certiorari, the court, according' to its better and more regular practice, will decline to hear -the case on its merits, even -though the counsel for the petitioner produce a copy of the record admitted on the other side-to he a true one. It will wait for a return, in form, from the court below.

On a petition for a certiorari to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to send up the record of their proceedings upon a habeas corpus issued from that court upon the application of the petitioner, it was stated by Mr. J. H. Bradley, counsel of the petitioner, that a copy of the record had been obtained; and he asked this court, upon the admission of the Attorney-G-eneral that the copy was-a correct one, to hear the case without a return from the court below. The Attorney-General, on the other hand, while admitting the copy of .the record produced to be. correct, moved the court, for reasons which he laid, to continue the case.