The Archive · 1927

Obdurate to the End

Boston, Aug. 19.

The Sacco-Vanzetti appeal has been refused.

The Supreme Court of Massachusetts overruled the exceptions plead. ed by the counsel far the defence tothe refusal of the Supreme Court and Justice Sanderson to grant. a writ of error and the refusal of the Superior Court and Judge. Thayer fo grant a new trial, revoke " the sentences or stay execution, The exceptions were based chiefly on allegations of prejudice on the part of Judge Thayer.

The decision of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts upheld the ruling of Judge Thayer that the motion for a new trial came too! Pronounced. late, because sentence had been

Arthur Hill, the chief counsel for the defence of Sneco and Vanzetti, stated that he would inform Chief Justice Hall of the Supreme Court! that the defence intended to petition for a writ "a certiorari"—or, in other words, writ issuing out of superior court to call up the records of an inferior court in order that errors or irregularities may bel corrected—based on a Pederal question relating to violation of" the Hano process" clause of the Constitution of the United States and ask him to grant stay of sentence until 10 certified copies of the record of the Sacco and Vanzetti eases, which have been ordered from the Clerk of the Superior Court at] Norfolk—as required by the practice of the United States Supreme Court can be printed.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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