Ex Parte Bigelow

Citations

• 113 U.S. 328
• 5 S. Ct. 542
• 28 L. Ed. 1005
• 1885 U.S. LEXIS 1687

Syllabus

<p>The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has jurisdiction to determine whether an arraignment of a prisoner under several indictments; an ordeb of court that the indictments shall be consolidated and tried together; an empanelling of a jury for that purpose; an opening of the case on the part of the prosecution; and a discharge of the jury at that stage in order to try the prisoner before the same jury on the indictments separately, so put the prisoner in jeopardy in regard to the offences named in the consolidated indictments, that he cannot be afterwards tried for any of those offences.</p> <p>When a court has jurisdiction by law of an ofEence and of the person charged with it, its judgments are, in general, not nullities ; an exception to this rule if relied on, must be clearly found to exist.</p>