Pointer v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO .THE CIROUIT COURT OE TIIE TJNITED STATES EOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OE ARKANSAS. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
At the February terra, 1892, of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas, the grand jury returned an indictment against John Pointer for the crime of murder.
In the first count it .was charged that the defendant, on the 25th of December, 1891, at the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian country, within the above district, did, with an axe, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, “strike, cut, penetrate, and wound ” upon the head one Samuel E. Yandiveer, a white man and not an Indian, inflicting thereby a mortal wound, from which death instantly…
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