BIRD v. UNITED STATES

No. 278.

180 U.S. 356 (1901)

21 S.Ct. 403

45 L.Ed. 570

BIRD v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 25, 1901.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. L.T. Michener for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Beck for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE SHIRAS delivered the opinion of the court.

The assignments of error are twenty-five in number, but of these we think it sufficient to consider only the tenth, the fourteenth and twenty-third.

The homicide, as alleged in the indictment, occurred on September 27, 1898, at a point on the Yukon River about eighty-five miles above Anvik, and about two miles below a coal mine known as Fort Dewey.

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