United States v. Rogers
Supreme Court of the United States
This Báse came up, on a certificate of division, from the Circuit. Court of "the United States for the District of Arkansas. At the April term, 1845, of the said Circuit Court,,the grand jury indicted William S. Rogers for the murder of Jacob Nicholson. Both Rogers and Nicholson were alleged, in the indictment, to he “ white men and not Indians.”
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This Báse came up, on a certificate of division, from the Circuit. Court of "the United States for the District of Arkansas. At the April term, 1845, of the said Circuit Court,,the grand jury indicted William S. Rogers for the murder of Jacob Nicholson. Both Rogers and Nicholson were alleged, in the indictment, to he “ white men and not Indians.” The offence was charged, to have been committed within the jurisdiction of the court, that is' to say, In that part of the Indian^ country west of the Sfate-of Arkansas that is bounded north by the north line of lands assigned to the Osage tribe of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
This case has been sent here by the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Arkansas, under a certificate of division of opinion between the justices ,of that court.
It appears by the'record, that William S. Rogers, a white man, was indicted in the above-mentioned court for murder, charged to have been committed upon a certain Jacob Nicholson, also a white man, in the country now occupied and allotted by the laws of the United States to the Cherokee Indians.
The accused put in a special plea to the indictment, in which he avers, that, having beencitizen oí the United States, he,…
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