Ex parte Bain

Ex parte Bain
Ex parte Bain
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 8, 1887; Decided March 28, 1887
Full case name	Ex parte George M. Bain, Jr.
Citations	121 U.S. 1 (more) 7 S. Ct. 781; 30 L. Ed. 849; 1887 U.S. LEXIS 2019
Holding
	When an indictment is filed with the court no change can be made in the body of the instrument by order of the court, or by the prosecuting attorney, without a resubmission of the case to the grand jury.
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 opinion
Majority	Miller, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. V
	Overruled by
	United States v. Miller (1985); United States v. Cotton (2002)

Ex parte Bain, 121 U.S. 1 (1887), was a United States Supreme Court case involving grand jury indictments.

Ex parte Bain
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 8, 1887 Decided March 28, 1887
Full case name	Ex parte George M. Bain, Jr.
Citations	121 U.S. 1 (more) 7 S. Ct. 781; 30 L. Ed. 849; 1887 U.S. LEXIS 2019
Holding
When an indictment is filed with the court no change can be made in the body of the instrument by order of the court, or by the prosecuting attorney, without a resubmission of the case to the grand jury.
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 opinion
Majority	Miller, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. V
Overruled by
United States v. Miller (1985) United States v. Cotton (2002)