Freihage v. United States

McCORMICK, District Judge.

John Freihage was indicted in the Fourth Division of the District Court of the United States for the Territory of Alaska for the crime of murder. The jury returned a verdict finding him not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter. Upon such verdict the court pronounced judgment and sentenced him to serve a term of twenty years’ imprisonment in the federal penitentiary. This appeal is from the judgment of conviction.

The record tends to show that the defendant in the court below had been for several years living out of wedlock with the deceased, Mrs. Big Joe, a…