Lewis 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 Shiras
This was a writ off error sued out to review a judgment of the Circuit JOourt-of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas, imposing a sentence of death upon Alexander Lewis, plaintiff in error, for the murder of one Benjamin C. Tarver, at the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian country.
It appears by the record that on the trial of the case, and after the accused had pleaded not guilty to the indictment, the court directed two lists of thirty-seven qualified jurymen to be made out by the clerk, one to be given to- the district attorney and one to the counsel for the defendant, and…
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