Huber v. United States

HUNT, Circuit Judge.

To review a conviction of manslaughter for voluntarily killing Mat Schernthaner, Huber brought writ of error from the District Court for Alaska, Fourth Division, and in his assignments complains of certain instructions upon the law of justifiable and excusable homicide given to the jury by the trial court. Huber located Discovery placer claim and in 1915 built a small cabin (about 13x15 feet) on the ground. About March, 1915, he and Schernthaner entered into a written agreement to work the claim on a percentage basis with Schernthaner until December 31, 1917. There seems…