MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.
The record suggests many questions of law, but the only one that may be considered by this court is whether the proceedings against the plaintiff in error were consistent with the provision in the Constitution of the United States forbidding the States from passing ex post facto laws.
Thompson was indicted in the St. Louis Criminal Court at its November term 1894 for the murder, in the first degree...
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