Copeland v. United States

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The appellant, Herman L. Copeland, was indicted, convicted, and sentenced upon a charge of murder in the first degree, for the killing of one David T. Dunigan on May 21, 1918, in the District of Columbia. He prays for a reversal.

The testimony taken at the trial is presented by a bill of exceptions and tends to prove the following facts, to wit:

That the defendant and his wife resided in a house on I street in the city of Washington; that for some time preceding May 21, 1918, he had been Working for a company at Indian Head, Md., but be spent that day at Ms home with his…