 Every citizen of the United States is also a citizen of a State or Territory. He may be said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment for an infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offense or transgression...  Commentaries on the Criminal Law - Page 633by Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1858Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1853 - 672 pages
...consequence of the same 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...may be said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment for an infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offence... | |
 | Henry Lee Scott - 1861 - 674 pages
...consequence of the same 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...may be said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns and may be liable to punishment for an infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offence... | |
 | 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 - 1862 - 466 pages
...consequence of the same 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...may be said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment for an infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offence... | |
 | Peter Hardeman Burnett - 1863 - 142 pages
...Howard, 13,) Mr. Justice Grier, in delivering the opinion of the Court, among other things, said : " Every citizen of the United States is also a citizen...be said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns,' and may be liable to punishment for an infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offence... | |
 | 1868 - 894 pages
...consequence of the same 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...may be said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment for the infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offence... | |
 | 1894 - 922 pages
...consequence of the same 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...may be said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment for an infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offense... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1871 - 708 pages
...consequence of the same 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.... | |
 | 1872 - 854 pages
...consequence of the same 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...may be said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment for an infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offense... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - 1875 - 796 pages
...How., 20. Mr. Justice GRIER, in delivering the opinion of the supreme court in the case cited, says: "Every citizen of the United States is also a citizen...may be said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment for an infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offense... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1875 - 1032 pages
...States in the case of Moore •re. The People of the State of Illinois, (It How., 20,) as follows: Every citizen of the United States is also a citizen of a State or Territory. He may lie said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment for an infraction of... | |
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