Owens v. United States

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was charged by indictment with having killed one Carl Christensen, “purposely and of his deliberate and premeditated malice,” by cutting and stabbing him with a knife, and, after trial, was convicted of murder in the second degree, upon which conviction he was sentenced to imprisonment. The homicide was the result of a combat with knives between the deceased and the plaintiff in error, in a cabin occupied by the latter, at a remote spot in the territory of Alaska. No one was present but the participants. At the trial the plaintiff in error testified…