United States v. Guiteau
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Statement oe the Case. On the 2d of July, 1881, the President of the United States, James A. Garfield, while standing in the waiting room of the Baltimore and Potomac Bailroad depot, in the city of Washington, I). C., was fatally shot by the prisoner, Charles J. Guiteau.
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Statement oe the Case. On the 2d of July, 1881, the President of the United States, James A. Garfield, while standing in the waiting room of the Baltimore and Potomac Bailroad depot, in the city of Washington, I). C., was fatally shot by the prisoner, Charles J. Guiteau. The ball from the assassin’s pistol entered the back of the President about -three inches to the right of the back-bone and inflicted a wound which resulted in death about three months afterwards at Elberon in the county of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey. Immediately after the death the body was brought back to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jamos
The defendant, Charles J. Guiteau, was indicted, tried; convicted and sentenced at a criminal term of the Supreme Court of tb i District of Columbia, for the murder of James A. Garfiekl, and has now brought his case into the general term for review upon certain questions of law.
*527It appears by the record that the defendant shot the deceased on the 2d day of July, A. D. 1881, with a pistol, in the station of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, in the city and county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, and that the deceased afterwards, on the 19th day of September^ A. D. 1881, died at…
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