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BARTKUS v. ILLINOIS

No. 1.

359 U.S. 121 (1959)

79 S.Ct. 676

3 L.Ed.2d 684

BARTKUS v. ILLINOIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 30, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter T. Fisher, acting under appointment by the Court, 352 U.S. 958, reargued the cause and filed a brief on rehearing for petitioner.

William C. Wines, Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, reargued the cause for respondent. With him on a brief on rehearing was Latham Castle, Attorney General.

MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner was tried in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on December 18, 1953, for robbery of a federally insured savings and loan association, the General Savings and Loan Association of Cicero, Illinois, in violation of 18 U. S. C. § 2113. The case was tried to a jury and resulted in an acquittal. On January 8, 1954, an Illinois...

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