Burton v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR" THE EASTERN DISTRICT OP MISSOURI. The plaintiff in error having been convicted in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri of a violation of the Revised Statutes of the United States, sec. 17<82, (1 U. S. Comp. S.tat., p. 1212), and set forth in the margin,1 has brought the case here directly from that court by writ of error.
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR" THE EASTERN DISTRICT OP MISSOURI. The plaintiff in error having been convicted in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri of a violation of the Revised Statutes of the United States, sec. 17<82, (1 U. S. Comp. S.tat., p. 1212), and set forth in the margin,1 has brought the case here directly from that court by writ of error. The defendant was a member of the Senate of the United States, representing the State of Kansas. The indictment under which he was tried contained nine counts. The first count,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Peckham,
after making the foregoing statement of facts, deliveretl the opinion of the court.
Counsel for defendant base their right to obtain a direct review by this court of the judgment of conviction in the District Court of Missouri upon the contention that the case involves the construction and application of the Constitution of the United States in several particulars. They insist that under Article 3, section 2, of the Constitution, and also under the Sixth Amendment of the same, the defendant was entitled to be tried by a Jury of the State or district in which the crime…
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