Jennings v. United States
Court Of Appeals Of Indian Territory
Appeal from the United States Court for the Northern District. W. M. Springer, Judge. A1 Jennings was convicted, of an assault with intent to kill, and appealed. At the May, 1898, term of the United States court for the Northern district of the Indian Territory, sitting at Muskogee, the defendant, A1 Jennings, was tried and convicted on a charge of assault with intent to kill, upon the person of one James Franklin Ledbetter.
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Appeal from the United States Court for the Northern District. W. M. Springer, Judge. A1 Jennings was convicted, of an assault with intent to kill, and appealed. At the May, 1898, term of the United States court for the Northern district of the Indian Territory, sitting at Muskogee, the defendant, A1 Jennings, was tried and convicted on a charge of assault with intent to kill, upon the person of one James Franklin Ledbetter. Ledbetter was a United States deputy marshal, in whose hands there had been placed a warrant for the arrest of the defendant, and three other persons, names unknown, upon…
1Opinion of the CourtClayton, J.
There are 15 assignments of error. They are as follows:
“(1) Because the court permitted the government witness J. F. Ledbetter to testify, over the objection of appellant, as follows: T believe it was the 4th of September —might have been the latter part of August, I forget the day now — I made a trip of two or three days after them. I went out east 25 or 30 miles. I went out east of Checotah, near Campbell Russell’s place. I afterwards learned that they had been on the Pittsburg & Gulf, at Barren Fork, a station on the Pittsburg & Gulf. Well, I hunted around there on that information two,…
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