State Ex Rel. Lea v. Brown

The questions presented on this appeal from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to a habeas corpus petition may be grouped under three general heads, first, the right of petitioners to a review of the trial in the courts of North Carolina, resulting in conviction, affirmed by the Supreme Court of that state, State v. Lea, 203 N.C. 13, 35, 164 S.E. 737, and followed by the denial by the United States Supreme Court of writs of certiorari, Lea v. State of North Carolina,287 U.S. 668, 53 S.Ct., 291, 77 L.Ed., 576; second, the right of petitioners to a hearing in the courts of Tennessee of the…