The Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 14West Publishing Company, 1894 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... trial , to exclude a witness because he disregard- ed an order to withdraw while other witnesses were testifying , is not , ordinarily , subject to revision by an appellate court ; and such re- fusal is clearly proper where the ...
... trial , to exclude a witness because he disregard- ed an order to withdraw while other witnesses were testifying , is not , ordinarily , subject to revision by an appellate court ; and such re- fusal is clearly proper where the ...
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... trial , one of the plaintiffs testified that the article ( of which he produced sam- ples ) was a manure salt , made in Saxony , from a substance there mined and known as " kainit , " by crushing and washing or leach- ing so as to ...
... trial , one of the plaintiffs testified that the article ( of which he produced sam- ples ) was a manure salt , made in Saxony , from a substance there mined and known as " kainit , " by crushing and washing or leach- ing so as to ...
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... TRIAL - MISCONDUCT OF PROSECUTOR . Where , in a trial for murder in another state , it appeared that defendant had previous- ly killed a negro in Mississippi , and had there been tried for murder and acquitted , it was er- ror for the ...
... TRIAL - MISCONDUCT OF PROSECUTOR . Where , in a trial for murder in another state , it appeared that defendant had previous- ly killed a negro in Mississippi , and had there been tried for murder and acquitted , it was er- ror for the ...
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... trial there in a court of the state in February , 1892 , upon a charge of murdering a negro whom he had killed there ... trial for killing Yates in Arkansas in 1891 , and not for kill- ing a negro in Mississippi two years before ...
... trial there in a court of the state in February , 1892 , upon a charge of murdering a negro whom he had killed there ... trial for killing Yates in Arkansas in 1891 , and not for kill- ing a negro in Mississippi two years before ...
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... trial . Wilson v . U. S. , 149 U. S. 60 , 67 , 68 , 13 Sup . Ct . Rep . 765 . The instructions given to the jury upon oth- er subjects may not take the same shape upon another trial , and need not be con- sidered . Judgment reversed ...
... trial . Wilson v . U. S. , 149 U. S. 60 , 67 , 68 , 13 Sup . Ct . Rep . 765 . The instructions given to the jury upon oth- er subjects may not take the same shape upon another trial , and need not be con- sidered . Judgment reversed ...
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Page 221 - That the circuit courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 340 - No corporation shall issue stocks or bonds except for money, labor done, or money or property actually received, and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.
Page 252 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is claimed under the constitution or any treaty or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such constitution, treaty, statute, commission, or authority...
Page 192 - No officer In any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation...
Page 254 - That every receiver or manager of any property appointed by any court of the United States may be sued in respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed ; but such suit shall be subject to the general equity jurisdiction of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed, so far as the same shall be necessary to the ends of justice.
Page 183 - You, therefore, are hereby commanded that such proceedings be had in said cause as, according to right and justice, and the laws of the United States, ought to be had, the said appeal notwithstanding.
Page 195 - ... and that no adverse claim exists ; and thereafter Opinion of the Court. no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Page 178 - The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance; their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved; but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.
Page 350 - In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guarantees equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.
Page 120 - The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment.