PUTNAM v. UNITED STATES. (1896)

PUTNAM v. UNITED STATES.
	Term: 1895
Important Dates
	Decided: May 4, 1896
Outcome
	Affirmed and reversed (or vacated) in part and remanded
Vote
	6-3
Majority
	Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller

PUTNAM v. UNITED STATES. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 4, 1896.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed and reversed (or vacated) in part the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the New Hampshire U.S. Circuit for the District of New Hampshire.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: presentation, admissibility, or sufficiency of evidence (not necessarily a criminal case)
Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 162 U.S. 687
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

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 liberal.