SULLIVAN v. TEXAS

No. 91.

207 U.S. 416 (1908)

SULLIVAN v. TEXAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 6, 1908.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles W. Ogden, with whom Mr. J.C. Sullivan was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. William E. Hawkins, with whom Mr. Robert Vance Davidson, Attorney General of the State of Texas, was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

By the action of the Supreme Court of the State the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals became the judgment of the highest court in the State to which the case could be taken, and hence the writ of error properly ran to that court. The constitutional question, although not raised theretofore, was distinctly presented in the petition...

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