United States v. Stanley
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana
[This was an indictment against Solomon Stanley for perjury.)
1Opinion of the Court
THE OOUBT
(charging jury). This is an indictment for perjury, under the 13th section of the act of congress of the 4th September, 1841 [5 Stat 453], for swearing falsely to establish a pre-emption right, which, by that act, is made perjury. The act of the 3d of August, 1846 [9 Stat. 50], provides “that every actual settler, being the head of a family, or widow, or single man over the age of twenty-one years, who is now in possession, by actual residence as a housekeeper, of any tract of public land within the limits of the several cessions by the Miami Indians, in Indiana, which have not yet…
2Cited by6 opinions
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- Hersh v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1934
- Barnett v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
- Reed v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1946
- McNiel v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1907
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