Weems v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The facts, which involve the legality of § 56 of the Penal Code of the Philippine Islands, and a sentence thereunder, under the guarantees against cruel and unusual punishments of the bill of rights of the Philippine Islands as expressed in the act of July 1, 1902, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The facts, which involve the legality of § 56 of the Penal Code of the Philippine Islands, and a sentence thereunder, under the guarantees against cruel and unusual punishments of the bill of rights of the Philippine Islands as expressed in the act of July 1, 1902, are stated in the opinion. If Weems was a public official of any Government, it was the government of the Philippine Islands, and not the United States Government. See acts of March 8, 1902, 32 Stat. 54; July 1, 1902, 32 Stat. 691, in which in a great variety of ways they…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
delivered the opinion of the court.1
This writ of error brings up for review the judgment of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, affirming the conviction of plaintiff in error for falsifying a “public and official document.”
In the “complaint,” by which the prosecution was begun, it was charged that the plaintiff in error, “a duly appointed, qualified and acting disbursing officer of the Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation of the United States Government of the Philippine Islands,” did, as such, “corruptly and with intent, then and there, to deceive and defraud the United States…
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