Allen v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE ' CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. The facts constituting the offence for which Allen was in- ' dieted are set forth in Allen v. United States, Í50 U. S. 551, and 157 U. S. 675. The rulings passed upon in the present case are stated in. the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This was a writ of error, to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas sentencing the plaintiff in error to death for the murder of Philip Henson, a white man, in the Cherokee Nation of the Indian Territory. The defendant' was tried and convicted in 1893, and upon such conviction being set aside by this court, 150 U. S. 551, was again tried and convicted in 1894. The case was again reversed, 157 U. S. 675, when Allen was tried for the third time and convicted, and this writ of error was sued out.
The facts are so fully set forth in the previous…
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