Hall v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OR THE UNITED STATES ROR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OR ARKANSAS. This was an indictment, found at August term, 1891, of the Circuit Court for the Western District of Arkansas, against Robert M. Hall, for the murder of James Yates, by shooting him with a gun, at Choctaw Nation in the Indian country in that district, on August 4, 1S91. At the trial, at August term, 1892, before the District Judge, it was proved, and not denied, that the defendant, being…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OR THE UNITED STATES ROR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OR ARKANSAS. This was an indictment, found at August term, 1891, of the Circuit Court for the Western District of Arkansas, against Robert M. Hall, for the murder of James Yates, by shooting him with a gun, at Choctaw Nation in the Indian country in that district, on August 4, 1S91. At the trial, at August term, 1892, before the District Judge, it was proved, and not denied, that the defendant, being then twenty-two years of age, shot and killed Yates at the time and place alleged, and that both were white men. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The defendant was on trial for killing Yates in Arkansas in 1891, and not for killing a negro in Mississippi two years before. Evidence as to his killing the negro and his arrest and trial therefor in Mississippi was introduced for two purposes only: first, by the district attorney, to test the knowledge of the witnesses to the defendant’s character; and afterwards by the defendant himself, to show that his return to Mississippi after the killing of Yates had another object than to flee from justice.
If the defendant had murdered the negro in Mississippi, and had been there convicted therefor,…
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