Turner v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama. These were indictments against Noel E. Turner and Martin Lank-ford for violating the statute against cutting timber from the public lands. Rev. St. § 2461. The indictments were consolidated, and defendants, having been convicted and separately sentenced, sued out this writ of error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama. These were indictments against Noel E. Turner and Martin Lank-ford for violating the statute against cutting timber from the public lands. Rev. St. § 2461. The indictments were consolidated, and defendants, having been convicted and separately sentenced, sued out this writ of error. On the 16th of February, 1894, the grand jury impaneled in the distriit court for the Southern district of Alabama found two indictments against the plaintiffs in error, each containing two counts, for cutting and procuring…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, Circuit Judge
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