Shea v. United States

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was charged with the murder of Ranee W. Book on November 14, 1917, at Cordova, Alaska. Some ten days prior to the homicide Book had married a woman who was the divorced wife of the plaintiff in error. She had gone to Seattle in October of that year and had met the plaintiff in error and agreed to resume the former relation. She returned to Cordova, intending, as she said, to sell her property and thereafter rejoin the plaintiff in error at Seattle. About three weeks later the plaintiff in error followed her to Cordova, and on the day on which he…