Wheeler v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
error to the circuit court of the united states for the EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
On January 2, 1895, George L. Wheeler was by the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas adjudged guilty of the crime of murder and sentenced to be hanged. Whereupon he sued out this writ of error. Three errors are alleged: First, that the indictment is fatally defective in failing to allege that the defendant and the deceased were not citizens of any Indian tribe or nation. It charges that they were not Indians nor citizens of the Indian Terri tóry. The precise question was presented in Westmoreland v. United States, 155 U. S. 545, and under the authority of that…
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