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317 U.S. 518

Holley v. Lawrence

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 18, 1943.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1943-01-18

1 counsel of record

Relies on Ex parte Republic of Peru · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Mims

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Petition denied / appeal dismissed · 8–0 · Decided 1943-01-18

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Cited by 245 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2011 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1975), United Mine Workers v. Pennington (1965)

136 federal appellate · 14 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 14 states

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¶1Mr. Benjamin E. Pierce for appellant.

¶2Per Curiam.

¶3The 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 in-' competent 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). The Court finds that no other federal question presented by the appeal warrants review by this Court. The appeal is accordingly dismissed.

¶4Dismissed.

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