Ong Chang Wing v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The facts, which involve the validity of a conviction in the Philippine Islands and the construction of 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 validity of a conviction in the Philippine Islands and the construction of the act of July 1, 1902, are stated in the opinion. The defendants were .prosecuted under article 343 of the Penal Code and the act of the Philippine Commission of October 9, 1907, which e&pressly repealed article 343. There being no saving clause regarding the prosecution of offenses under, the repealed articles of the Penal Code, defendants are under both American and Spanish law entitled to an acquittal. 12 “ Cyc.” 144.. The quotation…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
delivered the opinipn of the court.
The plaintiffs in error bring this case here for review by writ of error, to the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, upon the ground that the effect of the judgment of that court has been to deprive them of due process of law, in violation of § 5 of the act of Congress of July 1, 1902, c. 1369, 32 Stat. 691, 692, enacting'the due process clause of the Federal Constitution as a part of the statute for the government of those islands. No other question is presented in the record which we can review.
The plaintiffs in error were tried, convicted and…
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