In Re Robertson

Citations

• 156 U.S. 183
• 15 S. Ct. 324
• 39 L. Ed. 389
• 1895 U.S. LEXIS 2121

Syllabus

<p>Applications to this court for a writ of error to a state court are not entertained unless at the request of .a member of the court, concurred in by his associates.</p> <p>The decision of the highest court of a State that it was competent under an indictment for murder simply, to try and convict a person of murder in the first degree if the homicide was perpetrated in the commission of or attempt to commit robbery, presents no Federal question for consideration.</p> <p>When the record in a case brought here from the highest court of a State by writ of error discloses no Federal question as decided by that court, there is nothing in the case for this court tó consider.</p>