Stern v. United States

In this case a trial has been had, a judgment rendered, and an appeal taken; and now a motion is made to vacate the appeal, that a new trial may be had on newly-discovered evidence. A like motion is made in several cases of a class of cases, for the purpose of detaining them here while the questions of law on which all depend may be determined in one of *281the class in the Supreme Court. The motion, therefore, involves, many eases, and also a rule of practice which should be .definitely settled for future cases, and for these reasons we have considered it required consideration and an explicit…