Kleindienst v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal from a judgment of conviction of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in a criminal prosecution for adultery. The Court in tbe opinion stated tbe facts as follows: Appeal from a judgment in the supreme court of the District, where the defendant, Raymond O. Kleindienst, was convicted upon the two counts of an indictment charging him with adultery with Margaret Stout.
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Hearing on an appeal from a judgment of conviction of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in a criminal prosecution for adultery. The Court in tbe opinion stated tbe facts as follows: Appeal from a judgment in the supreme court of the District, where the defendant, Raymond O. Kleindienst, was convicted upon the two counts of an indictment charging him with adultery with Margaret Stout. The case was called for trial on May 7, 1915, and thereupon defendant filed motions asking either that it he certified to another division of the court, or that a jury panel he required to be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kobb
The government contends: First, “that the defendant suffered no prejudice in this matter, inasmuch as the law authorizes, in adultery cases, proof that the woman was reputed to be a prostitute, and that the house was reputed to be a bawdy-house;” and, second, that the record discloses no challenge, either peremptory or for cause, of the alleged objectionable jurors, nor does it show the peremptory challenges to have been exhausted.
Article 6 of the Amendments to the Constitution declares that “in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an…
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