MORISSETTE v. UNITED STATES.

No. 12.

342 U.S. 246 (1952)

MORISSETTE v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew J. Transue argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Robert W. Ginnane argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General McInerney and J. F. Bishop.


MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

This would have remained a profoundly insignificant case to all except its immediate parties had it not been so tried and submitted to the jury as to raise questions both fundamental and far-reaching in federal criminal law, for which reason we granted certiorari.1

On a large tract of uninhabited and untilled land in a wooded and...

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