Brown v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE UNITED STATES COURT IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY. Cyeus A. Brown, plaintiff in error in case No. 249, was indicted in the United States court for the Northern District of the Indian Territory, charged with the crime of murder, which indictment was filed in the United States court for the Indian Territory, Northern District, sitting at Muscogee on the 10th day of December, a.d. 1896. On the 17th day of December, a.d. 1897, he was convicted of the crime of murder in…
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ERROR TO THE UNITED STATES COURT IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY. Cyeus A. Brown, plaintiff in error in case No. 249, was indicted in the United States court for the Northern District of the Indian Territory, charged with the crime of murder, which indictment was filed in the United States court for the Indian Territory, Northern District, sitting at Muscogee on the 10th day of December, a.d. 1896. On the 17th day of December, a.d. 1897, he was convicted of the crime of murder in said court, and the judgment of the court sentencing him to death was made on the 24th day of December, a.d. 1897. On the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shiras
By the act of Congress approved March 1, 1889, c. 333, 25 Stat. 783, there was established a United States court for the Indian Territory. The act conferred no jurisdiction over felonies, but by the fifth section exclusive original jurisdiction was conferred over all- offences against the laws of the United States committed within the Indian Territory, not punishable by death or by imprisonment at hard labor. Jurisdiction was conferred in all civil cases between citizens of the United States who are residents of the Indian Territory where the value of the thing in controversy shall amount to…
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