Hall v. Scoggins

Bell, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The fact that this court denied a petition for certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals, which affirmed the judgment “overruling” the plea of former jeopardy, cannot be taken as an adjudication by this court as to the correctness or incorrectness of such decision; nor does the fact that some of the Justices dissented from such denial necessarily indicate anything more than that the Justices who dissented thought that the question was a doubtful one, and was at the same time one of such public gravity and importance that it…