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BROWN v. UNITED STATES

No. 863.

159 U.S. 100 (1895)

BROWN v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 3, 1895.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.M. Cravens for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Whitney and Mr. William H. Pope for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an indictment, in which the defendant, a white man and not an Indian, was charged in one count with the crime of having killed and murdered, on the 8th day of December, 1891, at the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian country, and within the Western District of Arkansas, one Josiah Poorboy; in another count, with having killed and murdered on the same day and in the...

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