MALLOY v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA (1915)

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MALLOY v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Term: 1914
Important Dates
Argued: March 5, 1915
Decided: April 5, 1915
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

MALLOY v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 5, 1915. The case was argued before the court on March 5, 1915.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the South Carolina State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Ex post facto (state)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: South Carolina
  • Citation: 237 U.S. 180
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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