Brown v. Massachusetts
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. An indictment was found by the grand jury in the superior court for the county of Nantucket and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on c. 204, §§ 1,"2, of the Public .Statutes of Massachusetts, containing twenty-four counts, each of which was for forging, or for uttering, a discharge for money payable by the county of Nantucket, or by the town of Nantucket, with intent to defraud the county,’or the town.
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ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. An indictment was found by the grand jury in the superior court for the county of Nantucket and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on c. 204, §§ 1,"2, of the Public .Statutes of Massachusetts, containing twenty-four counts, each of which was for forging, or for uttering, a discharge for money payable by the county of Nantucket, or by the town of Nantucket, with intent to defraud the county,’or the town. The town and county of Nantucket are geographically identical ; the selectmen of the town have the powers of county commissioners; the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
In order to give this court jurisdiction, under section 709 of the Revised Statutes, to review on writ of error a decision of the highest court of a State against a title, right, privilege or immunity claimed under the Constitution of the United States, it must, as observed by Chief Jjistice Waite in Spies v. Illinois, “ appear on the record that such title, right, privilege or .immunity was ‘specially set up or claimed’ at the proper time in the proper way.” 123 U. S. 131, 181.
In the case at bar, the only ground, on which it has been argued that the judgment of the Supreme Judicial Court of…
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