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· 11/23/1926

Salinger v. United States

Citations

  • 272 U.S. 542
  • 47 S. Ct. 173
  • 71 L. Ed. 398
  • 1926 U.S. LEXIS 22

How courts have described this case

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  • withdrawal of one offense from the jury’s consideration does not constitute a forbidden amendment
  • Removal of all counts but one from the jury did not add anything to the indictment that was not charged and “was not even remotely an infraction” of the constitutional guarantee of indictment by the grand jury.

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Judges: Van Devanter

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