United States v. Carr
U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia
Robert E. Carr was indicted and tried, at the November term, 1S72, of the circuit court for the Southern district of Georgia, for the willful murder of Hannon A. Jordan. The ease was this: Both the prisoner and the deceased were soldiers in the 3d artillery, United States army, and were stationed at Fort Pulaski, on Cockspur Island, near the mouth of the Savannah river, in Georgia. On the 13th of July, 1872, the prisoner was the sergeant of the guard at the fort.
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Robert E. Carr was indicted and tried, at the November term, 1S72, of the circuit court for the Southern district of Georgia, for the willful murder of Hannon A. Jordan. The ease was this: Both the prisoner and the deceased were soldiers in the 3d artillery, United States army, and were stationed at Fort Pulaski, on Cockspur Island, near the mouth of the Savannah river, in Georgia. On the 13th of July, 1872, the prisoner was the sergeant of the guard at the fort. About seven o’clock in the evening, a drunken quarrel occurred between some of the soldiers in the fort. Sergeant Bell, attempting…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, Circuit Judge
(charging jury). The prisoner stands at the bar of this court charged with the crime of willful murder. The indictment is based upon the third section of the act of congress, approved April 30, 1790 (1 Stat. 113), which reads as follows: "That if any person or persons shall, within any fort, arsenal, dockyard, magazine, or in any other place or district of country under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, commit the crime of willful murder, such person or persons on conviction thereof shall suffer death.” It charges that the prisoner, on the 13th of July, 1872, at and…
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