Bird v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Homer Bird was found guilty of the crime of murder and was sentenced to death. On appeal to this court the judgment and sentence were reversed and the case remanded for a new trial. 180 Ü. S. 356.
A new trial was had resulting again in the conviction of Bird for murder, and a sentence of death by hanging was pronounced against him. To this judgment and sentence this writ of error is directed.
After the-first trial and while the case was pending in this court, that is, on March 3,1899, Congress passed a criminal code and code of civil procedure for Alaska, entitled “ An act to define and punish…
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