Holmes v. United States

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment imposing the death penalty upon defendant upon a one-count indictment charging that defendant “carnally knéw and abused a female child under the age of sixteen years, that is of the age of nine years.” We find nothing whatever in the record to remotely justify reversal.

Because of the extreme penalty inflicted we have felt it incumbent on us to carefully examine the record in full and in detail and for the same reason we are impelled to discuss as briefly as is consistent with justice the several assignments of error urged upon behalf of…