Allen v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. This was a writ of error to review an order of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia dismissing a writ of error from .that court which had been sued out to. reverse the conviction of the plaintiff in error for the murder of one Charles Carr.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. This was a writ of error to review an order of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia dismissing a writ of error from .that court which had been sued out to. reverse the conviction of the plaintiff in error for the murder of one Charles Carr. After defendant had been convicted arid sentenced to death by the Superior Court of Bibb County, he made a motion for a new trial which was overruled, whereupon he sued out a writ of error from the. Supreme Court of the State, which was assigned for hearing upon the 4th day of March, 1895. The case…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The plaintiff in error claims that the order of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, dismissing his writ of error to the Superior Court of Bibb County, because he had escaped from jail and was a fugitive from justice, was a denial of due process of law within the meaning of the Federal Constitution.
It appeared from the record that, after the writ of error had been finally dismissed on May-6, 1895, Allen was subsequently recaptured and, upon April 25, 1896, was resentenced to death by the court in which, he had been convicted. While the precise question here involved has never before…
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