Dossett v. United States
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Appeal from the District Court of hoyan County. On the 1st clay of April, 1893, the United States grand jury within and for Logan county, returned an indictment against John Dossett, charging him with the crime of murder.
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Appeal from the District Court of hoyan County. On the 1st clay of April, 1893, the United States grand jury within and for Logan county, returned an indictment against John Dossett, charging him with the crime of murder. On the 18th day of August, 1893, his trial commenced before Chief Justice E. B. Green, then presiding judge of the First judicial district, and was finished on the 28th day of August, 1893, the court sitting with the powers of a United States district and circuit court. On the date last named the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and on the same date the defendant filed his…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Scott, J.:
While there are numerous assignments of 'error made by appellant, we think it unnecessary, in the consideration of the case, to take up any but the first, which involves the following instruction given by the tidal court to the jury.:
“The court instructs the jury, that when circumstances alone are relied upon by the prosecution for a conviction, the circumstances must be such as apply exclusively to the defendant, and such as are reconcilable with no other reasonable hypothesis than of the defendant’s guilt; and they must satisfy the mind of…
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