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Show CANNOT BE (.HANTEI). Ike Application for Writ of llalitat Curpu In the lleuon Murder Mur-der I f. nicTwo-DoiLAN silvcr ccnuri- CATC COUHTCnrilT. Direction of the ttoirrnmrnt to Hie Various Indian Agenta Imitator to l'rai.ut Hostilities. Br Ttlttrtphtola Nsws.1 the ihmax miincit Ar. The I', M. Hupf-nit lM llftn... le Uranl n Writ or Habeas t erptts. WAsiiixirnix, March in. The Ku re mo C'oiltt ut Hi- United Slates toil to-il ij refuted In grant the -I llcallnn fur ft writ of Arroca ooryiut In the some. - hat celebrated uiurdrrcno uf Dick Duncan va.McCall, Hlmin of lielir Comity, Texas, In which It wa sought In bring Into uuesllou tho mil Illy of tlm i nlire nal codo of tho Hlale of Texas. Iiunnin waa Indicted, tried ml convicted In Tuna of murder, and wntencul In hang, .l ar pealed tho case through nil tho Iniorinodlalo cnurta of the HUto of r.ian, and when tlia('oiiitofAiirala of tho lin Muir Htalr decided against lilin, tho take waa taken to tha United Htntee Colli la au 1 tho dccUlou were stilt against him. 11 was thru-brought here, Tho riiipremti Court, linn oplnlouby Chief Justice I'ullrr, antrmed the Judgment of tho Circuit Court, from which tha lata iwl waa liken. Duufau'a conttntlou waa that tho code rtTriaa liait never been lawfully law-fully euaitrd In accordance! with tho rrtpilremriite of tho Bcato' coiiklllu-tbn; coiiklllu-tbn; that tho code enrolled dim red through errors: of tho anrollluic -)-'tk from tha code passed ly tho Hlale ltglv laturi. Had Duncan'acontentlonbotu kUktaliicd It wtail 1 hate resulted In ttio nleaaocf all tlieprlsoncraln IheBbite ami would liavrtotitly upset thu HUto criminal syttttni. "Tha Hulr of Texas," Bays Iho opinion, "la In full umlou of Ha facultlce na it me uiUr of tho Union, and lu legislative, executive nnit Ju Ulclal dejstrtnienl arv luacefully oer. AHugty Ilia onlrrly and settled meth-, wis irrscrltied ly fundamental law, hctlicr certain atalulra hare or haro nit a blndliiK force It for tho Hlalo to determine, and that deb rmliiallon In Itself Inrolvre nu Infraitlon of tho roiiatltullun of till- Ulillid Btalca, and ralM mi lixlcr.1 iuiatloj glTIHK tlila court Jurlidlctlon." |