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Legal Citation: 211 U.S. 78 (1908)

Appellants
Albert C. Twining, David C. Cornell

Appellee
State of New Jersey

Appellants' Claim
That New Jersey's Court of Errors & Appeals erred in upholding a conviction obtained in a trial during which the appellants' Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process under the law were violated.

Chief Lawyers for Appellants
James Johnson, William Gooch, Herbert Smyth, Frederick Scofield (for Twining), Marshall Van Winkle (for Cornell)

Chief Lawyers for Appellee
H.M. Nevious, Robert McCarter

Justices for the Court
David Josiah Brewer, William Rufus Day, Melville Weston Fuller, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph McKenna, William Henry Moody (writing for the Court), Rufus Wheeler Peck-ham, Edward Douglass White

Justices Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan I