District Court, D. Alaska December 17, 1901, No. 1,327 (United States v. Bird)

BROWN, District Judge.

It appears by the record in-this case that the homicide alleged to have been committed *380by the defendant occurred on the Yukon river, in Alaska, on September 27, 1898; that thereafter a trial was had before the United States District Court for the District of Alaska, the defendant convicted, an appeal taken to the Supreme Court of the United States (21 Sup. Ct. 403, 45 L.