Ex parte Lange

In Ex parte Lange, 131 U.S. 207, 131 U.S. (Apx.) 207, 21 L. Ed. 872 (1874), the trial court's judgment imposed on the defendant a sentence of imprisonment for one year and a fine, but the applicable statute authorized only one of these two punishments. See Lange, 21 L. Ed. at 875-76. The defendant paid the fine. See id. Five days later, the trial court vacated its original judgment and signed another order resentencing the defendant to imprisonment for one year. See id. The Supreme Court decided that when the defendant "had fully suffered one of the alternative punishments to which alone the law subjected him, the power of the court to punish further was gone." See Lange, 21 L. Ed. at 878-79. Lange also decided that the defendant had been "twice punished for the same offense" in violation of double jeopardy principles. See Lange, 21 L. Ed. at 878).