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SHEPARD v. UNITED STATES

No. 50.

290 U.S. 96 (1933)

54 S.Ct. 22

78 L.Ed. 196

SHEPARD v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 6, 1933.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Harry W. Colmery and Charles L. Kagey, with whom Mr. L.M. Kagey was on the brief, for petitioner.

Solicitor General Biggs, with whom Assistant Attorney General Malloy and Messrs. Harry S. Ridgely and W. Marvin Smith were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE CARDOZO delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner, Charles A. Shepard, a major in the medical corps of the United States army, has been convicted of the murder of his wife, Zenana Shepard, at Fort Riley, Kansas, a United States military reservation. The jury having qualified their verdict by adding thereto the words "without capital punishment" (18 U.S.C. § 567), the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment...

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