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Hoffman v. State

Citations

  • 20 Md. 425
  • 1863 Md. LEXIS 60

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that, unless “there had been a final verdict either of acquittal or conviction, on an adequate indictment, the defendant could not be a second time placed in jeopardy for the particular offense[]” (quoting 147 Wheaton’s Crim. Law)
  • “[Although handed down by common law for centuries ... it was thought proper to embody it in the Constitutions of several of the States, and engraft [double jeopardy], by way of amendment, on that of the United States”
  • common law doctrine of double jeopardy in Maryland

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Judges: Bowie

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