WEST v. LOUISIANA

No. 230.

194 U.S. 258 (1904)

WEST v. LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 2, 1904.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lionel Adams, with whom Mr. Henry L. Lazarus and Mr. Richard B. Otero were on the brief, for plaintiffs in error.

Submitted by Mr. Walter Guion, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, Mr. F.C. Zacharie and Mr. Chandler C. Luzenberg for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM, after making the above statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court.

The only question for this court to determine is whether the admission of the deposition of Thebaud as evidence upon the trial of this case deprived the plaintiffs in error of due process of law, and therefore was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment upon the part of the State through its judicial department.

For many years the Supreme Court of Louisiana...

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