Jackson Challenges His Imprisonment, 1879

said warrant and the proceedings had thereunder for my arrest and imprisonment, are and have been illegal and void and in violation of the constitution and laws of the United States

Jackson Challenges His Imprisonment 1879

In this writ of habeas corpus, Samuel Jackson challenged his imprisonment for mailing lottery information, claiming that Congress did not have the power to censor what people send in the mail.

National Archives, Records of the Supreme Court of the United States