Logan v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. Four indictments, numbered in the record 33, 34, 35 and 36, ■ on sections 5508 and 5509 of the Revised Statutes (copied in the margin1) were returned by the grand jury at January term, 1890, of the District Court for the Northern District of Texas, sitting at Dallas in that district, against Eugene Logan, William Williams, Yerna Wilkerson and Clinton Butherford, for conspiracy to injure and…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. Four indictments, numbered in the record 33, 34, 35 and 36, ■ on sections 5508 and 5509 of the Revised Statutes (copied in the margin1) were returned by the grand jury at January term, 1890, of the District Court for the Northern District of Texas, sitting at Dallas in that district, against Eugene Logan, William Williams, Yerna Wilkerson and Clinton Butherford, for conspiracy to injure and oppress citizens of the United States in the free exercise of a right secured to them by the Constitution and laws of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The plaintiffs in error were indicted on sections 5508 and 5509 of the Revised Statutes, for conspiracy, and for murder in the prosecution of the conspiracy; and were convicted, under section 5508, of a conspiracy to injure and oppress citizens of the United States in the free exercise and enjoyment of the right to be secure from assault or bodily harm, and to be protected against unlawful violence, while in the custody of a marshal of the United States under a lawful commitment by a commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States for trial for an offence against the laws of the United…
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