Massachusetts v. Bogan

MORTON, District Judge.

This is a petition for the removal from the superior court of Massachusetts to this .court of a criminal prosecution charging the petitioner with the murder of one Sequeria. The petition alleges that the petitioner, Bogan, is a federal prohibition agent, and that while engaged in the performance of his duties he was-attacked by Sequeria and shot him fatally in self-defense. The question is whether a federal prohibition agent, who has been indicted in a state court on account of acts done, as he alleges, in the performance of his duties as such agent, has the right to…