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417  Ex parte WILSON.  March 30, 1885. [114 U.S. 417, 418]  
This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, presented to
this court by a man confined in the house of correction at
Detroit, in the state of Michigan, under a sentence to be
imprisoned there for 15 years at hard labor, passed by the
district court of the United States for the Eastern district of
Arkansas, upon an information filed by the district attorney for
that district. The record of the conviction and sentence, a copy
of which was annexed to the petition, showed the following case:
The information, which was filed by leave of the court,
contained two counts: The first count upon Rev. St. 5430, for
unlawfully having in possession, with intent to sell, an
obligation engraved and printed aft