Brown v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the circuit court of the united states for the WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. The case is stated in the. opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
John Brown, the plaintiff in error, was indicted and convicted for the murder of Josiah Poorboy and Thomas Whitehead, on December 8, 1891, at the Cherokee Nation in the Indian Territory, and on April 30, 1892, was sentenced to be hanged.
It appears from the record that Poorboy and "Whitehead were deputy marshals who had been trying to arrest James Craig, an escaped prisoner, for whose apprehension a small reward had been offered, and who was the co-respondent in a suit brought by Brown Hitchcock against his wife for divorce on the ground of adultery.
On the night of the murder, the plaintiff in…
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