Andrews v. Swartz
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
Andrews, the appellant, was convicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer for the county of Warren, New Jersey, of the crime of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to suffer the punishment of death.
He applied to the Chancellor of the State for a writ of ep'or, under a statute of New Jersey, providing that “writs of error in all criminal cases not punishable with death, shall be considered as writs of right, and issue of course; and in criminal cases punishable with death, writs of error shall be considered as writs of grace, and shali not issue but by the order of the Chancellor for the…
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