Hurtado v. California

Hurtado v. California
Hurtado v. California
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 22–23, 1884; Decided March 3, 1884
Full case name	Joseph Hurtado v. People of California
Citations	110 U.S. 516 (more) 4 S. Ct. 111; 28 L. Ed. 232; 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1716
Case history
Prior	In error to the Supreme Court of California
Holding
	The words "due process of law" in the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution do not necessarily require an indictment by a grand jury in a prosecution by a state for murder.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Morrison Waite Associate Justices Samuel F. Miller · Stephen J. Field; Joseph P. Bradley · John M. Harlan; William B. Woods · Stanley Matthews; Horace Gray · Samuel Blatchford
Case opinions
Majority	Matthews, joined by Waite, Miller, Bradley, Woods, Gray, Blatchford
Dissent	Harlan
	Field took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
	Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution; Article I, Section 8, to the California State Constitution

Hurtado v. California, 110 U.S. 516 (1884), was a landmark case decided by the United States Supreme Court that allowed state governments, as distinguished from the federal government, to avoid using grand juries in criminal prosecutions.

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