Rakes v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
error to the district court of the united states for the WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
This is a writ of error issued directly from this court to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia under § 5 of the act of March 3, 1891, c. 517, 26 Stat. 827, as amended by the act of July 20, 1897, c. 68, 29 Stat. 492, and cannot be maintained unless this was a case of “ conviction of a capital crime," or a case involving “the construction or application of the Constitution of the United States,” or a case in which “the constitutionality of any law of the United States is drawn in question."
Plaintiff in error was indicted under §§ 5508 and 5509 of the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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