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New York Criminal Reports: Reports of Cases Decided in All the Courts of the ... - Page 149
1896
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 14

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 672 pages
...act ; and may be said, in common parlance, to'be twice punished for the same ortence. Eve'ry citizen of the United States is also a citizen of a "State...infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offence or transgression of the laws of both. Thus, an assault upon the marshal of the United States,...
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Commentaries on the Criminal Law, Volume 1

Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1858 - 1012 pages
...both to that point, and to the general topic now under discussion. Said Grier, J. : " Every citizen of the United States is also a citizen of a State...may be said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns, and maybe liable to punishment for an infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offence...
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Military Dictionary: Comprising Technical Definitions: Information on ...

Henry Lee Scott - History - 1861 - 674 pages
...act, and may be said, in common parlance, to be twice punished for the same offence. Every citizen of the United States is also a citizen of a State...infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offence or transgression of the laws of both. Thus an assault upon the marshal of the United States...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 1

Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 466 pages
...act; and may be said, in common parlance, to be twice punished for the same offence. Every citizen of the United States is also a citizen of a State...infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offence or transgression of the laws of both. Thus, an assault upon the marshal of the United States,...
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The American Theory of Government Considered with Reference to the Present ...

Peter Hardeman Burnett - United States - 1863 - 142 pages
...Mr. Justice Grier, in delivering the opinion of the Court, among other things, said : " Every citizen of the United States is also a citizen of a State...infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offence or transgression of the laws of both That either or both may (if they see fit) punish such...
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The American Law Register, Volume 7

Law - 1868 - 894 pages
...act, and may be said, in common parlance, to be twice punished for the same offence. Every citizen of the United States is also a citizen of a state...two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment for the infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offence [under], or transgression of,...
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The Albany Law Journal: A Monthly Record of the Law and the ..., Volumes 49-50

Law - 1894 - 922 pages
...act : and may be said, in common parlance, to be twice punished for the same offense. Every citizen of the United States is also a citizen of a State...transgression of the laws of both. Thus, an assault upon the marshal of the United States, and hindering him In the execution of legal process, is a high offense...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 37

Law - 1888 - 556 pages
...retaking his slave, it does not follow that he would be twice punished for the same offense. * * * The same act may be an offense or transgression of the laws of both (State and United States)," for which, as afterward said, the offender is justly punishable. And it...
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The Congressional Globe, Part 2

United States. Congress - Electronic journals - 1871 - 708 pages
...act; and may be said, in common parlance, to be twice punished for the same offense. Every citizen of the United States is also a citizen of a State or Territory. He may be said to owe aljegianco to two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment for an infraction of the laws of either....
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The American Law Register, Volume 11; Volume 20

Electronic journals - 1872 - 854 pages
...act ; and maj be said, in common parlance, to be twice punished for the same offense. Every citizen of the -United States is also a citizen of a State...transgression of the laws of both. Thus, an assault upon the marshal of the United States, and hindering him in the execution of legal process, is a high offense...
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