Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “There is no merit in the appellant's contention that the court erred in overruling the appellant's motion for permission to withdraw his plea of nolo contendere and introduce evidence to show that Section 22 of the Mississippi Constitution had been violated and that the appellant's liberty had been twice placed in jeopardy for the same offense. It is not claimed that there was any other state prosecution arising out of the appellant's alleged embezzlement of the credit cards described in the indictment, and proof of the facts which the appellant's attorney proposed to prove, that is to say, that the appellant had been sentenced by a federal court in another state to imprisonment in a federal penitentiary for a period of five years for violation of Title 18, section 2314 U.S.C.A., and that the appellant had served a portion of the five-year sentence and had been placed on probation, would not have constituted a valid defense to the charge made in this case. United States v. Lanza, 260 U.S. 377 , 43 S.Ct. 141 , 67 L.Ed. 314 (1922); Abbate v. United States, 359 U.S. 187 , 79 S.Ct. 666 , 3 L.Ed.2d 729 (1958). "Where the same transaction constitutes a crime under the laws of the United States and also under the laws of the state, accused may be punished for both crimes, and an acquittal or a conviction in the court of either is no bar to an indictment in the other, in the absence of statutory provisions to the contrary." 22 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 296 d (1961); and cases cited. (Id.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 236 So. 2d 757 - Bankston v. State