Bush v. Kentucky

This court shares the regret expressed by counsel that tbe record is in some respects so meagre, and in other respects so confused, that it is impossible to ascertain what facts were before the inferior State court when it passed certain orders that áre commented upon in argument. Some of those orders refer to affidavits and other documents that are not made in any form a part of the record. The difficulties in our way have been, in part, removed by the frank concessions of counsel on both sides, and we cheerfully acknowledge the aid we have received from them in our search through the record…