Jordan v. Massachusetts
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OP THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. The facts, which involve the question of whether one convicted in a state court by a jury, a member of which was possibly insane at the time, was denied due process of law, are stated in the opinion. The trial court in refusing to set aside the verdict deprived defendant of one of those fundamental rights, the observance of which is indispensable to the liberty of the citizen.
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ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OP THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. The facts, which involve the question of whether one convicted in a state court by a jury, a member of which was possibly insane at the time, was denied due process of law, are stated in the opinion. The trial court in refusing to set aside the verdict deprived defendant of one of those fundamental rights, the observance of which is indispensable to the liberty of the citizen. A defendant cannot be deprived of any of his fundamental rights by a form of procedure. There is a limit .beyond which state courts cannot go.…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Lurtoñ
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death, and the judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth. of Massachusetts. The case is brought here upon a single question, namely, that the plaintiff\in error has been denied due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment, because he was tried by a jury which included one Willis A. White, concerning whose sanity it is said there existed reasonable doubt.
The. jury had been selected in the usual way, and White…
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