Dorr v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
EEROR-'TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The facts, which involved the question whether in the absence of a statute of Congress expressly conferring the right of trial by jury, when demanded by the accused, is a necessary incident of judicial procedure in the Philippine Islands, are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
This case presents the question whether, in the absence of a statute of Congress expressly conferring the right, trial by jury is a necessary incident of judicial procedure in the Philippine Islands, where demand for trial by that method has been made by the accused and denied by the courts established in the islands. .
The recent consideration by this court and the full discussion had in the opinions delivered in the so-called “Insular cases,” renders superfluous any attempt to reconsider the constitutional relation of the powers of the government to territory acquired by a treaty cession to…
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