maxwell's Case.
In the Supreme Court, Washington, on January 9, the Attorney-General of Missouri submitted a motion to dismiss, for .want of jurisdiction, in the case of Hugh M. Brooks, alias W. H. Maxwell, who is now in prison in St. Louis, under sentence of death for the mui'der of Charles A. Preller. Tho Attorney-General maintained that the case did not present a federal question, and that the Court cannot take federal jurisdiction over it. Counsel for the prisonoi argued, in a voluminous brief, that the case did present federal questions. Many of the reasons given are similar to those which were urged in the case of the Aearchists. The motion of the AttorneyGennral of Missouri has naturally the effect of bringing Maxwell's case before the Court at once on its meiits, and if the motion to dismiss be granted, it will, of course, be equivalent to an affirmance of the sentence of death pronounced by the State Court.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 241, 11 February 1888, Page 5 (Supplement)
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159maxwell's Case. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 241, 11 February 1888, Page 5 (Supplement)
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