Explore: Writs Of Error

of a trial, including the evidence and the judge's direction to the jury. As a result, England abolished all writs of error, including the writs of coram

courts eventually developed the writs of error and certiorari as routes to appellate relief, but both types of writs were severely limited in comparison

used in place of certiorari and the other prerogative writs. The Judicature Amendment Act did not abolish certiorari and the other writs, but it was expected

law writ of error coram nobis under the All Writs Act to set aside a conviction when no other remedy is available. In modern times, the All Writs Act

its predecessor, the Court heard two writs of error from the territorial courts and three prerogative writs of mandamus and prohibition in criminal matters

courts, via writs of error. It only did so twice. The Court could hear original habeas petitions, but disclaimed the authority to grant the writ post-conviction

held that such appeals could not be maintained as writs of error under § 22 of the Judiciary Act of 1789. The following year, while Ex parte McCardle

that it had issued out of the wrong office: and, after argument, THE COURT were unanimously of opinion, That writs of error to remove causes to this

would be limited to writs of error from the state (and later, territorial) courts, original habeas petitions and writs of error from habeas petitions

Title LXX of the Revised Statutes of the United States. Title LXX occupied only 41 pages. The Waite Court heard twenty-five criminal writs of error from the