In re Schneider, 148 U.S. 157 (1893)

U.S. Supreme Court

In re Schneider (No. 1)

No number

Submitted March 13, 1893

Decided March 14, 1893

148 U.S. 157

Syllabus

A writ of error from this court does not lie to a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia dismissing the petition of a convict for a writ of habeas corpus.

The petitioner, a prisoner confined in the jail of the District of Columbia under a sentence of death, by his attorneys moved for a writ of error from this court to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia refusing to issue a writ of habeas corpus which had been prayed for in a petition to that court.

Page 148 U. S. 162

U.S. Supreme Court

In re Schneider (No. 1)

No number

Submitted March 13, 1893

Decided March 14, 1893

148 U.S. 157

ORIGINAL

Syllabus

A writ of error from this court does not lie to a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia dismissing the petition of a convict for a writ of habeas corpus.

The petitioner, a prisoner confined in the jail of the District of Columbia under a sentence of death, by his attorneys moved for a writ of error from this court to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia refusing to issue a writ of habeas corpus which had been prayed for in a petition to that court.

Page 148 U. S. 162

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER.

The application for a writ of error or appeal is denied upon the authority of Cross v. Burke, 146 U. S. 82; In re Heath, 144 U. S. 92; In re Cross, 146 U. S. 271; Cross v. United States, 145 U. S. 571. See also Railroad Co. v. Grant, 98 U. S. 398; Dennison v. Alexander, 103 U. S. 522; United States v. Wanamaker, 147 U. S. 149.