Collins v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF TOE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District-of Arkansas of the crime of murder, and sentenced to be hung.
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ERROR FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF TOE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District-of Arkansas of the crime of murder, and sentenced to be hung. The circumstances of the homicide were substantially these: On. the evening of July IT, 1891, there was a dance at the Yalley House in Fort Gibson. 'A half brother of the defendant, named Walter Shannon, a boy about twelve years of age, was tending a soda-pop or confectionery stand in tlie room where the dance was going on. The deceased,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brewer,
after stating the case, delivered th; opinion of the court.
The facts of this case presented a proper question for the •consideration of the jury, as to whether the homicide was murder or manslaughter. The instruction challenged did not, when taken in connection with the other parts of the charge, present the law inaccurately; for'theretofore the judge had charged,’ substantially; that premeditation was necessary to the crime of murder; and also, quoting from some authority, that “ voluntary manslaughter is the unlawful killing of another without malice, upon sudden quarrel,…
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