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ALLEN v. UNITED STATES

No. 371.

164 U.S. 492 (1896)

ALLEN v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 7, 1896.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No appearance for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Solicitor General for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE BROWN delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas sentencing the plaintiff in error to death for the murder of Philip Henson, a white man, in the Cherokee Nation of the Indian Territory. The defendant was tried and convicted in 1893, and upon such conviction being set aside by this court,

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