Bram v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court 1
168 U.S. 532
18 S.Ct. 183
42 L.Ed. 568
BRAM
v.
UNITED STATES.
No. 340.
December 13, 1897.
[Syllabus from pages 532-534 intentionally omitted]
Asa P. French and James E. Cotter, for plaintiff in error.
Asst. Atty. Gen. Boyd, for the United States.
2Opinion of the Court · WhiteJustice White
1
This writ of error is prosecuted to a verdict and sentence thereon, by which the plaintiff was found guilty of murder, and condemned to suffer death. The homicide was committed on board the American ship Herbert Fuller, While on the high seas, bound from Boston to a port in South America. The accused was the first officer of the ship, and the deceased, of…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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