Bird v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OB THE UNITED STATES BOR THE DIS- ' TKICT OB' ALASKA. At a term of the United States District Court in and for the District of Alaska, Homer Bird, the plaintiff in error, was tried on a charge of having murdered one J. II.
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OB THE UNITED STATES BOR THE DIS- ' TKICT OB' ALASKA. At a term of the United States District Court in and for the District of Alaska, Homer Bird, the plaintiff in error, was tried on a charge of having murdered one J. II. Hurlin on the 27th day of September, A. D. 1898. On December 6, 1899, the jury found the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment, and on December 13, 1899, a motion for a new trial having been overruled, a sentence of death by hanging on February 9, A. D. 1900, was pronounced. A bill of exceptions was settled and signed by the trial judge…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice; Siiiras
delivered the opinion of the court.
The assignments of error are twenty-five in number, but of these we think it sufficient to consider only the tenth, the fourteenth and twenty-third.
The homicide, as alleged in the indictment, occurred on Sep tember 27, 1898, at a point on the Yukon River about eighty-five miles above Anvik, and about two miles below a coal mine known as Fort Dewey.
At the tfial the Government called as a witness for the prosecution one Charles Schelfier, who testified, among other things—
“ That in the month of August, when the defendant, in company with…
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