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Show The Wilkersou Case. The decision of the Supreme court of the United States in the case of tbe appeal of Wallace Wilkerson was received yesterday by the Supreme court of this territory. It affirms the decision of the Supreme court here, which held theruliDg of Judge Emerson Em-erson iu the case to be correct. The main featurej of the appeal was the ground that as the Btatutes of tbe territory made no provision for tbe mode of punishment for capital ofienses, the judge bad no right to specify by what means tho lite of the defendant should be taken. The opinion of the Supremo court fully discusses this question and arri res at substantially the same conclusion as the opinion delivered by Judge Boreman in the Supreme court of the territory. The case has been sent back to tbo First district whence tbe appeal was taken, and Wilkerson will be brought up and resentenced and a day set on which be will be shot for tbe trime of murder iu the first degree. |