Edward Douglass White

“ Now, this writ is issued, not by a commissioner of the circuit court, but by a commissioner of the U.S.C.ourt, Western District of Arkansas.' We say there is no such officer as that who is authorized to issue such a writ. There are commissioners appointed by the district court who have no authority to issue writs, and commissioners of the court of claims have no such right. The commissioner who has the right to issue such a writ is designated by the statute as 'Commissioner of the Circuit Court,' and the statute says that he shall be designated and called by that name. ”

“ The instruction given by the trial judge to the jury upon the inferences to be drawn by them from flight was specifically objected to, and the objection was duly reserved. The instruction convered by this exception is as follows:
'The law says that a man is to be judged by his consciousness of the right or wrong of what he does, to some extent. ”

“ The case is again here, in consequence of a second conviction, to review which a writ of error was sued out.
In the course of the first trial below the accused objected to the admissibility of a certain warrant. The matter was thus stated in the record:
'The Court: If you want to urge this objection [i. e. absence of a seal] , I want to know the law you refer to. If you haven't got any law, say so. The court decides that the paper is competent, unless you deny the signature. ”