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COOK v. UNITED STATES

No. 1311.

138 U.S. 157 (1891)

COOK v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 26, 1891.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George R. Peck and Mr. John F. Dillon, (with whom were Mr. William R. Day, Mr. Joseph Frease and Mr. W.H. Rossington, on the brief,) for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Solicitor General for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiffs in error, with others, were indicted in the court below at its October term, 1889, and were convicted and sentenced to suffer death, for the crime of murder alleged to have been committed on the 25th day of July, 1888, in that part of the United States designated in numerous public documents as the Public Land Strip, but commonly called No Man's Land. It...

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