Brinkley v. Buchanan

Bleckley, Judge.

Brinkley was under sentence of death for the offense of murder. His case had been before this court on writ of error, and the judgment of conviction had been affirmed. The ease was ended. The record had been fully made up. The courts, in the regular course of proceedings, had dischargee! their functions, and it remained only for the executioner to perform his. The day of execution was near at hand. The superior couft in which the conviction took place, and in which was the record of the conviction, was not in session, and the next term ivas some months distant. Under these…