Leeper v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT■OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. Plaintiffs in error were arraigned in the District Court of Coryell County, Texas, upon an indictment reading, as follows: “In the name and by the authority of the State of Texas, the grand jurors for the county of Coryell, State aforesaid, duly organized as such at the .January'term, a.d. 1890, of the District Court for said county, upon their oaths in said court present that Jim Deeper and Ed.
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ERROR TO THE COURT■OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. Plaintiffs in error were arraigned in the District Court of Coryell County, Texas, upon an indictment reading, as follows: “In the name and by the authority of the State of Texas, the grand jurors for the county of Coryell, State aforesaid, duly organized as such at the .January'term, a.d. 1890, of the District Court for said county, upon their oaths in said court present that Jim Deeper and Ed. Powell, on or about the 17th day of December, a.d. one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, in the county of Coryell and State of Texas, did…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
It must be regarded as settled that a petition for a writ of error forms no part of the record upon which action here is taken; Manning v. French, 133 U. S. 186; Clark v. Pennsylvania, 128 U. S. 395; Warfield v. Chaffe, 91 U. S. 690; Butler v. Gage, 138 U. S. 52: That to give this court jurisdiction to review the judgment of a state court under section 709 of the Revised Statutes, because of the denial by the state court of any right, title, privilege or immunity claimed under the Constitution, or any treaty or statute of the United States, it must appear on the record that such title, right,…
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