Legal Opinion

Territory v. Harding

Montana Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1887PublishedCited by 20 opinions

Appeal from Second Distinct, Beaverhead Oounty. Indictment for murder. Conviction below. Defendant appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

Wade, O. J.

This is a case of murder, and the defendant is under sentence of death. He asks to have the judgment against him-reversed for the following reasons, •viz.: First, that one of the grand jurors who composed the grand jury that found and returned the indictment against him was an alien; second, that the indictment was not signed by the district attorney of the second judicial district'; and, third, that the court erred in overruling his ■motion for a continuance.

•1. In support of the proposition that the indictment was found by a grand- jury not legally constituted, the defend*325ant made…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Clawson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
  2. United States v. HillU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia · 1809
  3. Territory v. PerkinsMontana Supreme Court · 1876

3Cited by20 opinions

  1. State v. HowardMontana Supreme Court · 1904
  2. State ex rel. Williams v. EllisIndiana Supreme Court · 1916
  3. Miller v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1909
  4. Territory of Montana v. MantonMontana Supreme Court · 1888
  5. Territory of Montana v. ClaytonMontana Supreme Court · 1888

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