Bowman v. United States
District Court, District of Columbia
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Sitting as Criminal Court.. Frank Bowman was convicted of murder in the first degree, and appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
ROBB, Associate Justice.
Appeal from a conviction in the Supreme Court of the District of murder in the first degree. The evidence for the government was substantially as follows:
On the morning of July 7, 1916, the body of Clarence Keefer was found in Lord’s Woods, near Michigan avenue, in this city, lying across a little path or trail, about 15 feet from “a place where the grass was depressed, as if some one had been sitting” there. At the latter spot was found a hat pin, ring, and newspaper. Deceased’s home was nearby, and a few minutes before he met his death he had started for a walk in…
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