Legal Opinion
Shepard v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 6, 1933No. 50PublishedCited by 442 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cardozo
The petitioner, Charles A. Shepard, a major in the medical corps of the United States army, has been, convicted of the murder of his wife, Zenana Shepard, at Fort Riley, Kansas, a United States military reservation. The jury having qualified their verdict by adding thereto the words “without capital punishment” (18 U.S.C. §567), the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for life. The judgment of the United States District Court has been affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, One of the judges of that court dissenting. 62 F. (2d) 683; 64 F. (2d) 641, A writ of…
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