Bartkus v. Illinois

*150Mr. Justice Black, with whom The Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Douglas concur,

dissenting.

Petitioner, Bartkus, was indicted in a United States District. Court for bank robbery. He was tried by a jury and acquitted. So far as appears the trial was conducted fairly by an able and conscientious judge. Later, Bartkus was indicted in an Illinois state court for the same bank robbery. This time he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. His acquittal in the federal court would have barred a second trial in any court of the United States because of the provision in the Fifth Amendment that…