Starr v. United States

Citations

• 164 U.S. 627
• 17 S. Ct. 223
• 41 L. Ed. 577
• 1897 U.S. LEXIS 1693

Syllabus

<p>The objection that the warrant of arrest of the plaintiff in error purports to be issued by a “Commissioner U. S. Court, Western District of Arkansas” instead of a “commissioner of the Circuit Court,” as required by statute, is without merit.</p> <p>'The ruling in Hickory v. United States, 160 TJ. S. 408, and the similar ruling in Alberty v. United States, 162 U. S. 499, that it is misleading for a court to charge a jury that, from the fact of absconding they may infer the fact of guilt, and that flight is a silent admission by the defendant that he is unable to face the case against him, are reaffirmed, and such an instruction in this case is held to be fatally defective.</p>