Holley v. Lawrence/Opinion of the Court

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Holley v. Lawrence
Opinion of the Court
896139Holley v. Lawrence — Opinion of the Court

United States Supreme Court

317 U.S. 518

Holley  v.  Lawrence


The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. The Court has examined all the federal questions raised by appellant. In so far as the appeal challenges the validity of Georgia Code § 38-1604, which makes incompetent the testimony of a wife at the trial of her husband, the judgment of the court below rests upon a non-federal ground adequate to support it, namely that the failure to tender such testimony at the trial barred any later claim of the alleged constitutional right. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Mims, 242 U.S. 532, 535, 37 S.Ct. 188, 189, 61 L.Ed. 476. The Court finds that no other federal question presented by the appeal warrants review by this Court. The appeal is accordingly dismissed.

Dismissed.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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