Cox v. United States
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the District Court of Logan County. The defendant, R. S. Cox; was, at the February, 1896, term of the district court for Logan county, sitting with the powers and jurisdiction of a United States district court, convicted of the crime of perjury, and sentenced to imprisonment in the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, for a period of four years, and to pay a fine of one dollar.
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Error from the District Court of Logan County. The defendant, R. S. Cox; was, at the February, 1896, term of the district court for Logan county, sitting with the powers and jurisdiction of a United States district court, convicted of the crime of perjury, and sentenced to imprisonment in the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, for a period of four years, and to pay a fine of one dollar. Having moved unsuccessfully for a new trial and in arrest of judgment, he brings the case to this court by petition in error.
1Dissent
Dissenting opinion by
Keaton, J.:
As I cannot agree with my associates, either as to the reasoning expressed or the conclusion reached in the foregoing opinion, I feel that it is proper, if not in fact a duty, to state the grounds of my disagreement therefrom; and I here submit them as prepared by me for the original opinion in the case of Rhea v. United States, but which was not concurred in by any of the other justices; hence I attach same as my dissent in this case.
The application herein was made under a territorial statute which was based upon an act of congress. The congressional enactment…
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- Freleigh v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1844
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