Lynes v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
At the last term of this Court, it being suggested, that in the record and proceedings, of the Circuit ..Court of Madison, in a case wherein the said Lynes was defendant to an indictment, and upon which •he was convicted, — great error existed — this Court awarded a writ of error.
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At the last term of this Court, it being suggested, that in the record and proceedings, of the Circuit ..Court of Madison, in a case wherein the said Lynes was defendant to an indictment, and upon which •he was convicted, — great error existed — this Court awarded a writ of error. The record returned in obedience to said man,date, disclosed — that at the October term, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, of the Circuit Court of Madison, an indictment was found against George Lyons,' Solomon Smith, John Ogden and Hugh Clingham, for the offence of playing at cards. The plaintiff in error being…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, J.
This Court at its last term, on the application of the plaintiff in error, awarded a writ of error to the Circuit Court of Madison, directing the clerk of that Court, to send up a full and complete transcript of the record of his indictment and conviction at the suit of the State, for playing “at a game of cards, in a public house, &c.” which record is here regularly returned, with the writ of error.
As the present, is the first case of a criminal *238prosecution, ever brought here by process, from this Court, it may not be out of place, briefly to state the reasons on which we place our right, to…
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