Bohanan v. Nebraska

Supreme Court of the United States
Bohanan v. Nebraska, 118 U.S. 231 (1886)
6 S. Ct. 1049; 30 L. Ed. 71; 1886 U.S. LEXIS 1925

Bohanan v. Nebraska

Opinion

He. Chief Justice Waite

delivered the opinion of the court.

This motion is denied. Bohanan set up specially an immunity from a second trial for .the same offence, by reason of Article Y. of the amendments of the Constitution of the United States. This was denied him by the judgment of the Supreme Court of the State, and we have jurisdiction to review that decision. Upon a motion to dismiss we cannot consider the merits of the question on which our jurisdiction depends, and no motion has been made to affirm.

Motion denied.

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Syllabus
This court has jurisdiction to review a judgment of a State court convicting a person of a criminal offence, when the defendant sets up at the trial, specially, an immunity from a second trial for the same offence by reason of the Yth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The court will not consider the merits of the question involved in a case, on a motion to dismiss unaccompanied by a motion to affirm.