Strauder v. West Virginia
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State of West Virginia. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
The plaintiff in error, a colored man, was indicted for murder in the Circuit Court of Ohio County, in West Virginia, on the 20th of October, 1874, and upon trial was convicted and sentenced. The record was then removed to' the Supreme (Court of the State, and there the judgment of the Circuit Court was affirmed. The present case is a writ of error to that court, and it is mow, in substance, averred that at the trial in the State court the defendant (now plaintiff in error) was denied rights to which he was entitled under the Constitution and laws of the United States.
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