Sawyer v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA. The writ of error - in this case brings before this court a judgment of conviction of murder, rendered in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA. The writ of error - in this case brings before this court a judgment of conviction of murder, rendered in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The plaintiffs in error were indicted at the fall term, 1905, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Wilmington -Division, for the murder, by shooting, on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1905, of E. R. Rumill,- captain; John T. Hall, mate; John Falbe, cook; C. L.' Smith,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The first question to be noticed in this case arises by -reason of these facts: When the case wás called for trial the clerk proceeded to call the names-of the jurors, and the record shows that:
“While the jury was being impaneled several jurors were called, and as each juror appeared he was told by the district attorney to stand at the foot of the panel, without any challenge on the part of the Government and without an opportunity given to defendants to accept, challenge for favor or cause, or to peremptorily challenge any and all of said jurors so stood aside.
“To each and to every action in…
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