MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the court.
John Brown, the plaintiff in error, was indicted and convicted for the murder of Josiah Poorboy and Thomas Whitehead, on December 8, 1891, at the Cherokee Nation in the Indian Territory, and on April 30, 1892, was sentenced to be hanged.
It appears from the record that Poorboy and Whitehead were deputy marshals who had been trying to arrest James Craig, an escaped prisoner, for whose apprehension a small...
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