State v. Roach

In a petition for a rehearing attention is called to the recent case of Chantangco v. Abaroa, 218 U. S. 476. There the court held an acquittal upon *178a criminal charge to be a bar to the recovery of damages occasioned by the same unlawful act. The decision, however, turned upon a peculiarity of the law of the Philippine Islands, in virtue of which “a judgment of conviction was essential to an action for indemnification.” (p. 484.) After stating the substance of the local statutes the opinion continues:

“The foregoing considerations eliminate any question of the effect of such a judgment of…