MARYLAND V. SOPER

CourtU.S. Supreme Court
Writing for the CourtJustia & Oyez
CitationMARYLAND V. SOPER, 270 U.S. 44 (1926)
Decision Date01 February 1926

PETITION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS

Syllabus

Decided upon the authority of Maryland v. Soper (No. 2), ante, P. 36.

Page 270 U. S. 45

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case is quite like that in No. 24, Original, just decided. It differs in that here the indictment which was removed from the Circuit Court of Harford County, Maryland, to the District Court of the United States for Maryland, was an indictment against E. Franklin Ely for perjury, in the inquiry made by the coroner into the circumstances of the death of Wenger, it being charged that when it was material whether he had seen Lawrence Wenger at the time he (Ely), as a government officer, lay concealed and hidden and watched the bringing of the still, he falsely stated he had not seen Wenger. In all other respects, the proceedings were quite like those in the case just decided, and, on the principles laid down in...

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12 cases
  • Screws v. United States
    • United States
    • U.S. Supreme Court
    • May 7, 1945
    ...190, 70 L.Ed. 499. And see State of Maryland v. Soper (No. 2), 270 U.S. 36, 46 S.Ct. 192, 70 L.Ed. 459; State of Maryland v. Soper (No. 3), 270 U.S. 44, 46 S.Ct. 194, 70 L.Ed. 462; State of Colorado v. Symes, 286 U.S. 510, 52 S.Ct. 635, 76 L.Ed. 1253. To the suggestion that such a limited c......
  • Baines v. City of Danville
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Fourth Circuit
    • August 10, 1964
    ...v. Soper, 270 U.S. 9, 46 S.Ct. 185, 70 L.Ed. 449; Maryland v. Soper, 270 U.S. 36, 46 S.Ct. 192, 70 L.Ed. 459; Maryland v. Soper, 270 U.S. 44, 46 S.Ct. 194, 70 L.Ed. 462. 11 See also Pugach v. Dollinger, 2 Cir., 277 F.2d 739, affirmed 365 U.S. 458, 81 S.Ct. 650, 5 L.Ed.2d 678. There, the Cou......
  • Dawson v. Vance
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Southern District of Texas
    • July 29, 1971
    ... ... And this self-imposed federal judicial restraint has been exercised even where substantial countervailing federal interests were involved. Maryland v. Soper, 270 U.S. 9, 46 S.Ct. 185, 70 L.Ed. 449; 270 U.S. 36, 46 S.Ct. 192, 70 L.Ed. 459; 270 U.S. 44, 46 S.Ct. 194, 70 L.Ed. 462. In Poe v. Ullman, ... ...
  • Ex parte Republic of Peru. the Ucayali. riginal
    • United States
    • U.S. Supreme Court
    • April 5, 1943
    ...U.S. 9, 4 S.Ct. 185, 70 L.Ed. 449; State of Maryland v. Soper (2), 270 U.S. 36, 46 S.Ct. 192, 70 L.Ed. 459; State of Maryland v. Soper (3), 270 U.S. 44, 46 S.Ct. 194, 70 L.Ed. 462; State of Colorado v. Symes, 286 U.S. 510, 52 S.Ct. 635, 76 L.Ed. 1253. These cases were not ordinary claims by......
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