Stevenson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas. John Stevenson, the plaintiff in error, was, on the 1st day of December, 1893, at a term of the United States circuit court for the Eastern district of Texas, indicted for the murder of one Joe Gaines. On May 13, 1897, he was put upon his trial, and on May 2.0th was convicted of manslaughter. His amended motion for a new trial was overruled. His motion in arrest of judgment was overruled.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas. John Stevenson, the plaintiff in error, was, on the 1st day of December, 1893, at a term of the United States circuit court for the Eastern district of Texas, indicted for the murder of one Joe Gaines. On May 13, 1897, he was put upon his trial, and on May 2.0th was convicted of manslaughter. His amended motion for a new trial was overruled. His motion in arrest of judgment was overruled. The sentence of the court was imprisonment at hard labor for the term of six years and ten months from June 2, 1897, in…
1Opinion of the Court
After stating the facts as above,
PARDEE, Circuit Judge,
delivered tbe opinion of the court.
Counsel for the plain+iff in error have presented 15 alleged assignments of error, some of which are -in accordance with the rules of this court in regard to assignments of error, but many of them are altogether too prolix and argumentative, and w.e shall therefore consider the case from our own point of view, dealing only with those alleged errors clearly and specifically assigned. The evidence of Mrs. Joe Paul with regard to the declarations of the defendant made some three months prior to the homicide…
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