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STRAUDER v. WEST VIRGINIA

100 U.S. 303 (____)

STRAUDER v. WEST VIRGINIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles Devens and Mr. George O. Davenport for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. Robert White, Attorney-General of West Virginia, and Mr. James W. Green, contra.

MR. JUSTICE STRONG delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error, a colored man, was indicted for murder in the Circuit Court of Ohio County, in West Virginia, on the 20th of October, 1874, and upon trial was convicted and sentenced. The record was then removed to the Supreme Court of the State, and there the judgment of the Circuit Court was affirmed. The present case is a writ of error to that court, and it is now, in substance, averred that at the...

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