In Re Mayfield
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. This was a petition for a'writ of habeas corpus." Petitioner averred that on the 19th day of Qctober, 1890, he was indicted in the District .Court of the United-States ¿for. the "Western District of Arkansas, and subsequently tried, convicted and sentenced to the Detroit House of Correction for three years, for. the crime of adultery in the Indian, country.
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ORIGINAL. This was a petition for a'writ of habeas corpus." Petitioner averred that on the 19th day of Qctober, 1890, he was indicted in the District .Court of the United-States ¿for. the "Western District of Arkansas, and subsequently tried, convicted and sentenced to the Detroit House of Correction for three years, for. the crime of adultery in the Indian, country. He further stated that he was “ a Cherokee Indian by blood, and a recognized member of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, and resided at the time of his arrest for the crime aforesaid, in the said Cherokee Nation, where the said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beown
Petitioner was indicted for a violation of the third section of the act of March 3, 1887, 24 Stat. 635, c. 397,entitled “An act to amend an act entitled c An act to amend section fifty-three hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in reference to bigamy, and for other purposes,’ approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.” The section reads as follows: “ That whoever commits adultery shall be punished b}r imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding three years; and when the act is committed between a married woman and a man who is unmarried,…
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