General
SECUNDINO MENDEZONA y MENDEZONA v. UNITED STATES
195 U.S. 15849 L. Ed. 136·Supreme Court of the United States·1904
Dissenting: Mr. Justice Brown, Mr. Justice White, Mr. Justice McKenna and Mr. Justice Holmes.
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Opinion
SECUNDINO MENDEZONA y MENDEZONA v. UNITED STATES.
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT.OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
No. 584.
Argued April 22, 1904.
Decided May 31, 1904.
Decided on authority of Kepner v. United States, ante, p. 100.
No brief filed for plaintiff in error.
Mr. L. B. Wilfley, Attorney General for the Philippine Islands and Mr. Solicitor General Hoyt, for the United States.
[MAJORITY — Mr. Justice Day]
Mr. Justice Day
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case involves the question just decided in Kepner v. United States, ante, p. 100. The plaintiff in error was acquitted in the court of first instance and convicted in the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands.
For the reasons stated in the Kepner case, the judgment herein is reversed, and the prisoner discharged.
Dissenting: Mr. Justice Brown, Mr. Justice White, Mr. Justice McKenna and Mr. Justice Holmes.