Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 42, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 September 1939 — Double Jeopardy [ARTICLE]

Double Jeopardy

Connecticut is believed to be the only state that, in recent years, has enforced a case of “double jeopardy,!’ or compelled a person to undergo a new trial for a criminal offense of which he hdd Once been duly acquitted. The case in point occurred a short time .ago after the state’s right to appeal had been upheld by the Supreme court of the United States.— Collier’s.