Boyd v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. T,he case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
The plaintiffs in error Were jointly indicted in the court below for the crime of murder, alleged to have been committed on the 6th day of April, 1890, at the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian country, within the'Western District of Arkansas; -the first count alleging that the person murdered, John Dansby, was a negro, and not an Indian; the second, that the defendants were white men, and not Indians. The court, in its charge to the jury, said that the second count differed from the first “ by alleging that Eugene Standley, alias Eugene Stanton (he, is charged in that way in both counts) and John…
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