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MURRAY v. LOUISIANA

No. 718.

163 U.S. 101 (1896)

16 S.Ct. 990

41 L.Ed. 87

MURRAY, v. LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 18, 1896.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas F. Maher for plaintiff in error.

Mr. M.J. Cunningham, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, and Mr. Alexander Porter Morse for defendant in error submitted on their brief.

MR. JUSTICE SHIRAS, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

Several of the assignments of error bring into question the correctness of the judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana affirming the action of the trial court in proceeding with the trial in disregard of a petition by the accused to have the cause removed into the Circuit Court of the United States upon the allegation that the petitioner was a negro, and that persons of...

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