Washmood v. United States
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Appeal from District Court, Carter County; George W. Clcu'k, Assigned Judge. A. Washmood was convicted of murder, and appeals. The plaintiff in error, A. Washmood, was on the 17th day of October, 1906, indicted by grand jury in the southern district of the Indian Territory, at Ada, charged in eight counts with conspiracy to murder and with the murder of one Ben Collins. J. B. Miller, Henry Pruitt, Clint Pruitt, and Dan Sie were jointly indicted with plaintiff in error.
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Appeal from District Court, Carter County; George W. Clcu'k, Assigned Judge. A. Washmood was convicted of murder, and appeals. The plaintiff in error, A. Washmood, was on the 17th day of October, 1906, indicted by grand jury in the southern district of the Indian Territory, at Ada, charged in eight counts with conspiracy to murder and with the murder of one Ben Collins. J. B. Miller, Henry Pruitt, Clint Pruitt, and Dan Sie were jointly indicted with plaintiff in error. It was alleged in said indictment that the crime was committed August 1, 1906, in the southern district of the Indian…
1Opinion of the Court
BAREFOOT,
Special Judge (after stating the facts as above.). First. The first assignment of error is that the district court of Carter county was without jurisdiction to try the defendant for the reason that the crime with which he stood charged was one against the laws of the United States; the crime as alleged having been committed before the erection of the state. To substantiate this contention we are cited to the case of Sill Pickett v. United States, 216 U. S. 456, 30 Sup. Ct. 265, 54 L. Ed. 566, which has been recently decided by the Supreme Court of the United States; the same being a…
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