United States v. John Q. Wood

I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion in this case. The exigencies of time 1 arising from the desirability of returning to State hands the enforcement of its laws make it impossible for me to set down, point by point, the reasons for my dissent. This opinion will, therefore, be confined to a detailed discussion of one or two points whose decision seem to me so glaringly wrong in the majority opinion and so distressingly destructive of the cooperative relationship which should exist between state and federal sovereign-ties.

I do not think that the order by the district court denying…