Bolln v. Nebraska
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE NEBRASKA. • This is a writ of error to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Nebraska, affirming a conviction of the plaintiff in error by the district court of Douglas County, for the crime of embezzlement. • The proceedings in the case, so far as they are disclosed by the record before us, which was agreed upon under subdivision nine of rule ten of this court, are as follows: On Ai"’il 2, 1896, an information was filed by the…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE NEBRASKA. • This is a writ of error to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Nebraska, affirming a conviction of the plaintiff in error by the district court of Douglas County, for the crime of embezzlement. • The proceedings in the case, so far as they are disclosed by the record before us, which was agreed upon under subdivision nine of rule ten of this court, are as follows: On Ai"’il 2, 1896, an information was filed by the county attorney for the county of .Douglas against the plaintiff in error, both as city treasurer of the city of Omaha…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brown,.after making the above statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
Two questions were raised in the briefs and argument of the plaintiff in error: First, that a proceeding by information for a felony was not, so far as the State of Nebraska is concerned, due process of law, under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Second, that the trial by .the court, without a jury, of the issue raised by the ninth' plea in abatement, whether the defendant had waived a preliminary examination, was not- due process of law.
1. The first question, so far as it…
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