Carolina v. Maddox

HEDRICK, Judge.

By his first assignment of error defendant contends that his trial in the superior court placed him in double jeopardy in violation of his constitutional rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. He argues that by virtue of being punished by prison authorities prior to trial for assaulting Marcellus Murphy, he could not subsequently be tried and convicted by a court of law for the same offense. This court has prevously held that “ [a] dministrative discipline of an inmate does not constitute multiple punishment within the meaning and…