Pickett v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA. The facts aro stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lurton
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma, upon a.conviction in a capital case, sued out by the plaintiff in error, the defendant below, by authority of the fifth section of the act of March 3; 1891, 26 Stat. 826, 827.
The plaintiff- in error, Silas Pickett, a negro, was indicted .in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma for the murder of a negro, known as Walter, the Kid, within the limits of the Osage Indian, Reservation. The indictment was remitted to the Circuit Court for the…
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