Hicks v. United States

Mr, Justice Shirks

delivered the opinion of the court.

In the Circuit Court of the-United States for the "Western District of Arkansas, John Hicks, an Indian, was jointly-indicted with Stand Rowe, also an Indian, for the murder of Andrew J. Colvard, a white man, by shooting him with a gun on the 13th of February, 1892. Rowe was killed by the officers in the attempt to arrest him, and Hicks was tried separately and found guilty in March, 1893. We adopt the statement of the facts in the case -made in the brief for the government as correct and as sufficient for our purposes:

“It appears that on…