Sigourney v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““ * * * [I]t is perfectly clear that the court in the first trial having directed a verdict at the instance of the defendant, and on the ground that the indictment was fatally defective, defendant is now estopped to urge that the judgment so procured by him is a bar to this action. (Stewart v. State of Ohio, 15 Ohio St., 155 .) The direct question was so decided in State v. Meekins, 41 La. Ann., 543 , 6 So. Rep., 822 . The general principle is also stated in 12 Cyc., 266, and is forcefully announced in the following language in 8 R.C.L., 152: “ ‘It may be stated as a general rule that where an indictment is quashed at the instance of the defendant, though after jeopardy has attached, he can not thereafter plead former jeopardy when placed on trial on another indictment for the same offense.’ “We find no error of the trial court in sustaining the demurrer to the plea of former acquittal.* * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 35 Ohio App. 3d 156 - City of Oakwood v. Ramnath