THE UNITED STATES v. ROGERS


45 U.S. 567 (1846)

4 How. 567

THE UNITED STATES, PLAINTIFFS, v. WILLIAM S. ROGERS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case came up to this court upon the points certified, and was argued by Mr. Mason, Attorney-General, on behalf of the United States.


Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This case has been sent here by the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Arkansas, under a certificate of division of opinion between the justices of that court.

It appears by the record, that William S. Rogers, a white man, was indicted in the above-mentioned court for murder, charged to have been committed upon a certain Jacob Nicholson, also a white man, in the country now occupied...

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