Graves v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT, COURT OE THE UNÍTED STATES EOR THE. WESTERN DISTRICT'OE ARKANSAS. This was a writ of error upon the conviction of the plaintiff in error for the murder of an unknown man in the Indian Territory on the 13th day of February, 1889. - The evidence on. the part of the prosecution tended to show that several days' before the murder two men stopped together at Yian, and obtained a contract to make rails for one Waters, and lived in a house about one mile from…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT, COURT OE THE UNÍTED STATES EOR THE. WESTERN DISTRICT'OE ARKANSAS. This was a writ of error upon the conviction of the plaintiff in error for the murder of an unknown man in the Indian Territory on the 13th day of February, 1889. - The evidence on. the part of the prosecution tended to show that several days' before the murder two men stopped together at Yian, and obtained a contract to make rails for one Waters, and lived in a house about one mile from Waters’ residence. They came from Winslow, in the State of Arkansas, in an old vehicle drawn by two horses, and were on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The first assignment of error is to the action of the court in permitting “the district attorney in his closing argument to the jury, over the objections of the defendant, to comment upon the absence of the defendant’s wife from the presence of the court, and to state; .among other things to the jury, that the defendant’s wife ought to have been sitting by the side of her husband during the trial, so that, witnesses for the government could see her and identify her as the.woman who was said to have been with the defendant in the Indian country before,the unknown man’s remains or bones were…
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