Tucker v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT. OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE. WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. This was an indictment, found at November term, 1892, of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas, against Marshal Tucker, for the murder of Lula May, a white woman, by shooting her with a pistol, at the Choctaw Nation in the'Indian Country in that district on October 15, 1892. The defendant pleaded not guilty; and by agreement of the parties the case…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT. OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE. WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. This was an indictment, found at November term, 1892, of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas, against Marshal Tucker, for the murder of Lula May, a white woman, by shooting her with a pistol, at the Choctaw Nation in the'Indian Country in that district on October 15, 1892. The defendant pleaded not guilty; and by agreement of the parties the case ivas ordered to be continued to the next term and set down for trial on February 23, 1893. On February 21, 1893, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The only exception argued to any ruling upon evidence was to the admission, in contradiction of the defendant’s own testimony at the trial, of the application made by him on oath, a few days before, for the summoning and payment by the United States of witnesses in his behalf.
That application was made under section 878 of the Revised Statutes, which is as follows: “Whenever any person indicted in a court of the United States makes affidavit, setting forth that there are witnesses whose evidence is material to his defence; that he cannot safely go to trial without them; what he expects to…
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