Nofire v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
error to the circuit court of the united states for the WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
Plaintiffs in error were indicted in the Circuit Court of the United States for the "Western District of Arkansas for the murder of Fred. Rutherford “at the Cherokee Nation in the Indian country,” on December 15, 1895.' They were tried in May, 1896, found guilty by the jury, and, on June 12, the verdict having been sustained, they were sentenced to be hanged.
The principal question, and the only one we deem it neces. sary to notice, is as to the jurisdiction of the court. The defendants were full-blooded Cherokee Indians. The .'indictment charged that Rutherford was “ a white man and ¡not an…
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