Murphy v. Massachusetts
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Plaintiff in error, a citizen of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and of the United.
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ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Plaintiff in error, a citizen of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and of the United. States, was tried in the Superior Court of Massachusetts on an indictment which charged him in sixty-four counts with the embezzlement of different sums of money on different days between July 19, 1892, and November 29,1893, contrary to the provisions of section forty of chapter 203 of the Public Statutes of Massachusetts; was found guilty, and on May 29, 1896, was sentenced under chapter 504 of the statutes of 1895 to imprisonment in the state’s…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The specification of errors in the brief of counsel is as follows: “The contention of the plaintiff in error is that the sentence under which he is now held puts him twice in jeop ardy, and that such double jeopardy abridges his privileges and immunities as a citizen of the United States, and deprives him of his liberty without due process of law.”
Laying out of view the suggestion that the immunity from double jeopardy or double punishment of a citizen of Massachusetts, in Massachusetts, is an immunity possessed by him as a citizen of the United States as contradistinguished from a citizen of…
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