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BIDDLE v. PEROVICH

No. 771.

274 U.S. 480 (1927)

BIDDLE, WARDEN, v. PEROVICH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 31, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George T. McDermott, with whom Mr. Robert Stone was on the brief, for Perovich.

Solicitor General Mitchell, with whom Mr. Robert P. Reeder, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for Biddle, Warden.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has certified questions of law to this Court upon facts of which we give an abridged statement. Perovich was convicted in Alaska of murder; the verdict being that he was `guilty of murder in the first degree and that he suffer death.' On September 15, 1905, he was sentenced to be hanged; and the judgment was affirmed...

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