Perkins v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Easter p.District of South Carolina, at Charleston; Henry A. Middleton Smith, Judge. George B. Perkins was convicted of manslaughter, and he brings, error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The indictment in this case charged the defendant with the murder of F. W. R. Hinman, on the Clyde Dine Steamer Mohawk, on a voyage from New York to Charleston, in November, 1914. The trial resulted in a verdict of manslaughter and a sentence of three years’ imprisonment. Error is assigned in the exclusion of evidence and in the instructions to the jury.
The case made by the government was this:
About 8 o’clock on November 11, 1914, while Mr. Hinman and his-wife were sitting in the saloon of the Mohawk, conversing with the master and other passengers, the defendant…
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