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Law) Defn: A writ from a higher courtforbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp.
All Baron Huddleston was concerned with was whether a fairer trial might be obtained in a higher Court than in a lower one, and before a special jury than before a common one.
This is directly counter to the spirit and letter of Fox's Act; and I suspect that Judge North would have expressed himself more guardedly in a higher court.
A system in which such things are possible is inherently vicious, and only endurable because the defeated party can always appeal and have a new trial before a higher court.
They also conduct preliminary hearings in cases where persons are accused of serious crimes, and when the evidence seems to warrant it they may commit the accused person for trial before a higher court.
If the action is conducted in a higher court, then a jury decides the question at issue, the judge instructing the jurors in points of law.
Give an outline of the procedure in a criminal action that is tried with a jury in a higher court.
In all the States of this country any one is entitled to such a trial, and he is also, in case of defeat, entitled to appeal and present his case to a different and a higher court.
The proceedings would be reversed by a higher court, and the party would be granted a new trial at a place and in accordance with his constitutional privileges.
A higher court in reviewing a case on an appeal cannot usually go behind the facts as declared by a jury.
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