In re Burns

ROGERS, District Judge.

The petitioner John W. Burns was indicted in the United States court for the Northern district of the Indian Territory for the crime of maiming, and upon plea of not guilty and trial the following verdict was rendered: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon. J. W. Bird, Foreman,” — and was sentenced by the court, upon that verdict, to be imprisoned in the United States jail situated at Ft. Smith, Ark., and to pay a fine of $200 and costs. An exception was taken to the entry of that judgment upon the foregoing verdict. The indictment…