United States v. Plumer
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
The prisoner, with three others, was in-' dieted in the circuit court for the district of Massachusetts, for murder on the high seas. Plumer was tried and convicted. Motions for a new trial and in arrest were filed, but they were afterwards waived, and Plumer was sentenced to be executed. A motion was now made for allowance of a writ of error coram nobis. The indictment, record, and docket entries weve thus: The Indictment United States of America.
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The prisoner, with three others, was in-' dieted in the circuit court for the district of Massachusetts, for murder on the high seas. Plumer was tried and convicted. Motions for a new trial and in arrest were filed, but they were afterwards waived, and Plumer was sentenced to be executed. A motion was now made for allowance of a writ of error coram nobis. The indictment, record, and docket entries weve thus: The Indictment United States of America. Circuit Court of the United States of America, for the District of Massachusetts. At a circuit court of the United States of America, for the…
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFFORD, Circuit Justice.
Prior to the filing of the petition in this case, the prisoner had been indicted and convicted, in the circuit court for this district, of the crime of wilful murder upon the high seas, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, and having waived and withdrawn the respective motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment, which he filed subsequent to the verdict of the jury, he had been sentenced by the court to suffer the punishment of death, as provided by the act of congress under which the indictment against him was found. 4 Stat. 115. Convicted, by…
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