Winston v. United States. Strather v. Same. Smith v. Same
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. These were three cases of indictments, returned and tried in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, for murders committed since the passage of the act of Congress of January 15, 1897, c. 29, by the first section of which, “ in all cases where the accused is found guilty of the crime of murder or of rape under sections fifty-three hundred and thirty-nine or fifty-three hundred and forty-five, Revised…
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CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. These were three cases of indictments, returned and tried in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, for murders committed since the passage of the act of Congress of January 15, 1897, c. 29, by the first section of which, “ in all cases where the accused is found guilty of the crime of murder or of rape under sections fifty-three hundred and thirty-nine or fifty-three hundred and forty-five, Revised Statutes, the jury may qualify their verdict by adding thereto ‘ without capital punishment; ’ and whenever the jury shall…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
By section 5339 of the Revised Statutes, reenacting earlier acts of Congress, “every person who commits murder” “ within any fort, arsenal, dockyard, magazine, or in any other place or district of country under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States,” “ shall suffer death.”
The act of January 15, 1897, c. 29, entitled “An act to reduce the cases in which the penalty of death may be inflicted,” provides, in section 1, that in all cases in which the accused is found guilty of the crime of murder under section 5339 of the Revised Statutes “ the jury may qualify their verdict by adding…
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