Harrison v. United States
| Decision Date | 18 May 1896 |
| Docket Number | No. 294,294 |
| Citation | 16 S.Ct. 961,41 L.Ed. 104,163 U.S. 140 |
| Parties | HARRISON v. UNITED STATES |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Richard B. Kelly, for plaintiff in error.
Asst. Atty. Gen. Dickinson, for the United States.
As stated by counsel for the United States, plaintiff in error was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for life under an indictment for robbing a mail carrier of the United States of a registered mail package, which charged that, in effecting such robbery, he put in jeopardy the life of the carrier, by the use of dangerous weapons, and was based on the following section of the Revised Statutes:
In the course of impaneling the jury, plaintiff in error challenged three persons peremptorily, and afterwards challenged one Harris peremptorily; but the court held that he was entitled to only three peremptory challenges, which he had exhausted, and overruled the challenge, to which action of the court an exception was duly taken. Harris was then sworn on the jury, and sat as a member thereof on the trial. Four other persons were likewise separately challenged peremptorily, the challenges overruled, exceptions taken, and they served on the jury.
If plaintiff in error was entitled to ten peremptory challenges, five persons unlawfully took part as jurors in his conviction. Section 819 of the Revised Statutes provides:
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