BRAM v. UNITED STATES

No. 840.

168 U.S. 532 (1897)

BRAM v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 18, 1897.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Asa P. French and Mr. James E. Cotter for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Boyd for defendants in error. Mr. Solicitor General was on his brief.


MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This writ of error is prosecuted to a verdict and sentence thereon, by which the plaintiff was found guilty of murder, and condemned to suffer death. The homicide was committed on board the American ship Herbert Fuller while on the high seas bound from Boston to a port in South America. The accused was the first officer of the ship, and the deceased, of whose murder he was convicted, was the master of the vessel...

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