Hill v. United States Ex Rel. Wampler

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding a warrant of commitment, containing terms inserted by a clerk, void for not conforming to the judgment of the court
• noting that “there is a remedy by motion to correct” an inaccurate judgment
• explaining, “[i]n any collateral inquiry, a court will close its ears to a suggestion that the sentence entered in the minutes is something other than the authentic expression of the sentence of the judge”
• “[t]he only sentence known to the law is the sentence or judgment entered upon the records of the court”
• “The only sentence known to the law is the sentence or judgment entered upon the records of the court.”
• “The only sentence known to the law is the sentence of judgement entered upon the records of the court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).