Mattox v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS. Plaintiff in error was convicted on January 16, 1891, in the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas, of the murder of one John Mullen, which was alleged to have been committed on December 12, 1889, “within that part of the Indian Territory lying north of the Canadian River and east of Texas and the 100th meridian, not set apart and occupied by the Cherokee, Creek, and…
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS. Plaintiff in error was convicted on January 16, 1891, in the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas, of the murder of one John Mullen, which was alleged to have been committed on December 12, 1889, “within that part of the Indian Territory lying north of the Canadian River and east of Texas and the 100th meridian, not set apart and occupied by the Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indian tribes, . . . the same being a place and district of country under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
Error is assigned to the action of the court below, (1) in assuming jurisdiction of the case; (2) in not remitting.the indictment to the Circuit Court for trial; (3) in admitting to the jury the reporter’s notes of the testimony of two witnesses at the former trial, who had since died ;' (4) in refusing to permit the defendant to'introduce the testimony of two witnesses to impeach the testimony of one of the deceased witnesses, upon the ground that the proper foundation had not . been laid. We proceed to the consideration of these assignments in their order:
1. The offence was alleged in the…
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