United States v. Dawson
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came up from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas, upon a certificate of division in opinion between the judges thereof. The two following questions were certified, viz. ' 1st. Did the act of Congress, entitled “An act to divide the district of Arkansas into two judicial districts,” approved the third day of.
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This case came up from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas, upon a certificate of division in opinion between the judges thereof. The two following questions were certified, viz. ' 1st. Did the act of Congress, entitled “An act to divide the district of Arkansas into two judicial districts,” approved the third day of. March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, whereby the Western District of Arkansas was created and defined, take away the power and jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
The defendant was indicted, in the Circuit Court c-f the United States for the District of Arkansas, for the alleged murder of one Seaborn Hill, in the Indian country west of the State of Arkansas.;
The defendant is a white man, and so was Hill, the deceased.
At á Ciicuit Court held at the city of Little Rock, on the 28th of April,. 1853, the indictment came on for trial before the judges of that court; whereupon a motion was made, on behalf of the defendant, to quash the indictment, for want of jurisdiction of the court to try the same.
And, upon the argument, the judges being divided in…
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