Court Opinion

ID: 9527606
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:31:55.650827+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:25:56.464921
License: Public Domain

DISSENTING OPINION
DeBruler, J.
— Indiana Code § 35-1-2-15, as it appeared prior to its most recent amendment and as it appears in the majority opinion, cannot be correctly construed as a broad bar to Indiana prosecutions following federal ones within the geographic area of the states. At the time of its first enactment in 1905 there was no significant potential for an overlap between state and federal criminal judgments within the territory governed by both the state and national governments. The federal criminal jurisdiction of the time within the states was narrow and highly specialized. The overlap problem simply did not exist to the extent it does today and it is, therefore, unlikely that the legislators of the day were responding to it. Furthermore, the statute as it appeared in the Acts of 1905 stands among the first sections of the criminal code which deal with general framework and geographical matters. As a section *71it is entitled “Judgment in another State.” This placement and title would indicate a concern more within the sphere of proper intergovernmental relations than within the sphere of individual rights. And finally there is little support for the majority conclusion that the purpose of this statute “was to extend the constitutional double jeopardy provision.” As a legislative response with perimeters defined by the application in the circumstances presented in this case, it goes far beyond double jeopardy thought which was extant in 1905 and which has persisted with only minor changes to this very day.
I would, therefore, conclude that this statute provides no basis for appellant’s claim made in his motion to dismiss that the state prosecution against him should be dismissed.
Pivarnik, J., concurs.
Note — Reported at 383 N.E.2d 304.