Court Opinion

ID: 9736384
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 18:54:23.527114+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:27:06.380091
License: Public Domain

*175Dissenting Opinion by
Mb. Chief Justice Bell:
This case is undoubtedly governed and ruled by Bartkus v. Illinois, 359 U.S. 121, and Abbate v. United States, 359 U.S. 187, which hold that a person can be indicted and tried for the same crime in both Federal and State Courts. While I think they should be reversed or modified, I cannot go as far as the Majority do, and I believe the test which the Majority adopt (prospectively, and apply retroactively) is so indefinite and so subject to Judicial caprice that I must dissent for each of these reasons.