Crawford v. United States

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

Appellant, defendant below, was convicted of murder in the first degree in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; and, from the judgment thereon, sentencing him to death, this appeal was taken.

Four men were named in the indictment: Defendant, who was convicted; one Joseph Hardy, who has not been apprehended; one Benjamin Branson, who obtained a severance, testified for the United States, thereafter pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree; and one Carl M. Terry, who was acquitted. The murder was committed in a gasoline station at Sixth street and…