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BOYD v. UNITED STATES

No. 1048.

142 U.S. 450 (1892)

BOYD v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 4, 1892.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.J. May for plaintiffs in error. Mr. A.H. Garland filed a brief for same.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Maury for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiffs in error were jointly indicted in the court below for the crime of murder, alleged to have been committed on the 6th day of April, 1890, at the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian country, within the Western District of Arkansas; the first count alleging that the person murdered, John Dansby, was a negro, and not an Indian; the second, that the defendants were white men, and not Indians. The court, in...

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