Clyde Mattox v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS. This was an indictment charging Clyde Mattox with the murder of one John Mullen, about December lá, 1889, in that part of the Indian Territory-made part of the United States judicial district of Kansas by section two of • the act of Congress of January 6, 1883, (22 Stat. 400, c. 13,) entitled “ An act to provide for holding a term of the District Court of the United States at Wichita, Kansas, and…
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS. This was an indictment charging Clyde Mattox with the murder of one John Mullen, about December lá, 1889, in that part of the Indian Territory-made part of the United States judicial district of Kansas by section two of • the act of Congress of January 6, 1883, (22 Stat. 400, c. 13,) entitled “ An act to provide for holding a term of the District Court of the United States at Wichita, Kansas, and for other purposes.” Defendant-pleaded not guilty, was put upon his trial, October 5, 1891, and on the eighth of that…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The allowance or refusal of a new trial rests in the sound discretion of the court to which the application is addressed, and the result cannot be made the subject of review by writ. of error, Henderson v. Moore, 5 Cranch, 11; Newcomb v. Wood, 97 U. S. 581; but in the case at bar the District Court excluded the affidavits, and, in passing upon the motion, did not exercise any discretion in respect of the matters stated therein. Due exception was taken and the question of admissibility thereby preserved.'
It will be perceived that the jurors did not state what influence, if any, the…
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