Trapp v. Territory of New Mexico
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico-. Malcolm Trapp was convicted of homicide (16 N. M. 700, 120 Pac. 702), and firings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
On January 4, 1910, Webb J. McAdams, a constable and deputy sheriff, and Clay Davidson, another deputy sheriff, went to the dug-out and home of John C. Trapp with a pretended warrant for his arrest that was illegal, and, after calling him to the door, lie arose and started to the door, a colloquy arose between him and McAdams, when shooting commenced, and McAdams was killed in the affray by a shot fired by the defendant below, Malcolm Trapp, a son of John C. Trapp, about 21 years of age. At the lime of the shooting John C. Trapp, his sons Malcolm, John, a boy about 19…
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