Ashe v. Swenson
The Double Jeopardy Clause prevents a state from relitigating a question already decided in favor of a defendant at a previous trial.At trial, a jury returned a general verdict of not guilty "due to insufficient evidence".[2] His case before the Supreme Court was presented pro bono by noted Washington attorney and former Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford.The state's case was argued by Gene E. Voigts, First Assistant Attorney General of Missouri.[3] The Supreme Court concluded from the record of the prior trial that the "single rationally conceivable issue in dispute before the jury was whether [Ashe] had been one of the robbers.