Crain v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OR THE UNITED STATES EOE THE western DISTRICT OÉ ARKANSAS. This writ of error brought up for review a judgment in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas, by which the plaintiff in error was senténced to imprisonment in the House of Correction at Detroit, Michigan, at hard labor, for the term of three years.
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OR THE UNITED STATES EOE THE western DISTRICT OÉ ARKANSAS. This writ of error brought up for review a judgment in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas, by which the plaintiff in error was senténced to imprisonment in the House of Correction at Detroit, Michigan, at hard labor, for the term of three years. The defendant was indicted under section 5421 of the Revised Statutes, which provides: “Every person who falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits; or causes or procures to be falsely made, altered, forged or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice HaelaN
The transcript before the court must be taken to be as certified, namely, a true and complete copy of the record and proceedings in this case. It appears from the first order of record in the trial court that the defendant came “in his own person, and by his attorney;” that, on motion of the United States, by its attorney, it was “ordered by the court that a jury come to try the issue joined; ” that a jury was.selected, empanelled and sworn “to try the issue joined, and a true verdict render according to the law and the evidence;” and that the jury found the defendant “guilty as *633charged in…
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