Wood v. Sloan

Citations

• 18 N.M. 290
• 137 P. 578

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS.</p> <p>1. Const., art. VI, sec. 3/ providing that the Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction to issue writs of error which may be issued by the direction of the Court or any justice thereof, repealed Laws 1907, c. 57, sec. 3, providing for the •issuance of writs of error by the clerk of the Court.</p> <p>P. 292</p> <p>2. Where the Supreme Court, upon statehood. appointed the clerk of the former Territorial Court to be clerk of the Supreme Court and allowed him to continue to issue writs of error, as had been the practice before statehood, writs of error, so issued, with the knowledge and acquiescence of the Supreme Court and the justices thereof, must be taken to be issued at their direction within Const., art. VI, sec. 3, providing for that manner of issuing writs of error.</p> <p>P. 293</p>