In re Wixom
Nevada Supreme Court
Original application to the supreme court for a writ of certiorari. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. I. The office of a writ of certiorari when issued out of the supreme court, to review the proceedings and determination of inferior tribunals, extends to the review of all questions of jurisdiction, power and authority, of the inferior tribunal to do the act complained of and to all questions of regularity in the proceedings, that is, to all questions whether…
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Original application to the supreme court for a writ of certiorari. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. I. The office of a writ of certiorari when issued out of the supreme court, to review the proceedings and determination of inferior tribunals, extends to the review of all questions of jurisdiction, power and authority, of the inferior tribunal to do the act complained of and to all questions of regularity in the proceedings, that is, to all questions whether the inferior tribunal has kept within the boundaries prescribed for it by the express terms of the statute, or by well…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Beatty, J.:
In January, 1874, the petitioner was convicted of a felony in the district court for Lander county, and is now confined in the state prison under sentence pronounced upon that conviction.
The time within which he might have appealed from the judgment having elapsed, he presents this petition for a writ of certiorari, commanding the district court to certify its proceedings on the trial of the indictment.
It appears from the petition and accompanying affidavit that when the petitioner was arraigned in the district court he stated that he was too poor to employ counsel;…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Maynard v. RaileyNevada Supreme Court · 1866
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