Garland v. Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP WASHINGTON. The facts, which involve the validity, under the due process provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment, of a conviction and sentence, are stated in the opinion.' The term “law of the land” is synonymous with the term “due process of law.”
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP WASHINGTON. The facts, which involve the validity, under the due process provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment, of a conviction and sentence, are stated in the opinion.' The term “law of the land” is synonymous with the term “due process of law.” Missouri Pacific R. R. Co. v. Himes, 115 U. S. 512. It was neither due process of law nor the giving to the plaintiff in error of the equal protection of the law to file two informations against- him in the same case charging substantially different crimes and put him on trial without any notice to him as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Superior Court of King County, Washington, upon an information charging him with larceny of “a check payable for the sum of one thousand dollars in money.” Upon appeal the conviction was affirmed by the Supreme. Court of Washington (65 Washington, 666), and the case comes here upon writ of error.
It appears that a previous information had charged the accused with the larceny of “one thousand dollars ($1,000) in lawful money of the United States.” Upon that information he was arraigned, entered a plea of not guilty, was tried and convicted. A new…
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