Gut v. State
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Minnesota. The ease was thus: A statute of Minnesota, in force in 1866, required that criminal causes should be tried in the county where the offences were committed. The offence charged against the defendant was committed in December of that year, in the county of Brown, in that State. At that time four other counties, which were unorganized, were attached to Brown County for judicial purposes.
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Error to the Supreme Court of Minnesota. The ease was thus: A statute of Minnesota, in force in 1866, required that criminal causes should be tried in the county where the offences were committed. The offence charged against the defendant was committed in December of that year, in the county of Brown, in that State. At that time four other counties, which were unorganized, were attached to Brown County for judicial purposes. On the 9th of March, 1867, a statute was passed by the legislature of the State authorizing the judge of the District Court, in cases where one or more counties were…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The objection to the act of Minnesota, if there be any, does not rest on the ground that it is an ex post facto law, and, therefore, within the inhibition of the Federal Constitution. It must rest, if it has any force, upon that provision of the State constitution which declares that, “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by aj impartial jury of the county or district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which county or district shall have been previously ascertained by law.” But the Supreme Court of the State has held that the…
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