Hurtado v. California
Supreme Court of the United States, 1884
110 U.S. 516
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Plaintiff in error was charged with first degree murder by information, not by a grand jury, pursuant to the California state constitution and statutes. Plaintiff was convicted and sentenced to death. He appealed, contending that due process required indictment by a grand jury.
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