RIVERS v. UNITED STATES

No. 16175.

270 F.2d 435 (1959)

Barbara Luella RIVERS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

September 9, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren C. Christianson, Sitka, Alaska, Albert White, Juneau, Alaska, Lawrence Speiser, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Roger G. Connor, U. S. Atty., Jerome A. Moore, Juneau, Alaska, for appellee.

Before POPE, CHAMBERS and HAMLEY, Circuit Judges.


POPE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree after trial in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, First Division. She was sentenced to life imprisonment.

At the time of the alleged homicide, the appellant and her husband, Paul Rivers, were living at the Alaskan Hotel at Sitka. Some time during the night of December 3, 1957, Paul Rivers died or was killed. Late on the evening of December 5, the Sitka police received...

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