Legal Opinion
Tumey v. Ohio
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 14, 1927No. 527PublishedCited by 2,383 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
The question in this case is whether' certaift statutes of Ohio, in providing for the trial by the mayor of a village of one accused of violating the Prohibition Act of the State, deprive the accused of due process of law and violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitu tion, because of the pecuniary and other interest which those statutes give the mayor in the result of the trial.
Tumey, the plaintiff in error, hereafter to be called the defendant, was arrested and brought before Mayor Pugh, of the Village of North College Hill, charged with unlawfully possessing intoxicating…
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