United States v. Boyd
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Arkansas
At Law. The defendants were indicted for the murder of one John Dansby, a colored man. The government charged that the defendants, together with another party, committed the crime of murder, by killing Dansby while they were attempting to rob him. After the evidence was all heard, ■and the argument of counsel had closed, the court charged the jury, and .afterwards they returned a verdict of murder.
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, J.,
(charging jury.) The defendants, John Boyd and Eugene Stanley, are before you charged with the crime of murder, for having •on the 6th day of April, 1890, at the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian country, taken the life of John Dansby, a negro, and not an Indian, by willfully, and with their malice aforethought, shooting him with a gun. That, in short, is the first count of the indictment.
The second count charges the same set of facts, with the exception of the allegation going to the jurisdiction, and that differs from the first •count in the indictment by alleging that Eugene Stanley…
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