In re Coston
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Petition filed in the Court of Appeals of Maryland. This was a petition filed in this Court, asking the Court to pass an order requiring tho Clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore city to make out and transmit to the said Court of Appeals a transcript of the record in d Habeas Corpus case in said Criminal Court, wherein Sarah Coston, the mother and next friend of Simon Coston and Washington Coston, was petitioner, and the said Samuel S. Coston respondent; in which case the…
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Petition filed in the Court of Appeals of Maryland. This was a petition filed in this Court, asking the Court to pass an order requiring tho Clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore city to make out and transmit to the said Court of Appeals a transcript of the record in d Habeas Corpus case in said Criminal Court, wherein Sarah Coston, the mother and next friend of Simon Coston and Washington Coston, was petitioner, and the said Samuel S. Coston respondent; in which case the said Samuel S. Coston had prayed an appeal from an order of the said Criminal Court, discharging the said Simon and…
1Opinion of the CourtBowie, C. J.
It is the exclusive right and province of this Court to determine the hounds of its jurisdiction, and decide in what cases an appeal does or does not lie from the judgments of inferior tribunals, otherwise suitors might be entirely deprived of the benefit of an appeal, by the very authors of the errors by which they deem themselves aggrieved.
The Acts of Assembly and the Code, have declared the cases in which appeals will lie', and the manner and time of taking and prosecuting appeals from Courts of Law. These are limited to “any judgment or determination of any Court of Law, in any civil suit…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- State v. MaceCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1853
- Bell v. State ex rel. MillerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1846
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- Wisener, Sheriff v. BurrellSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1911
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