Scheff v. United States

SYMES, District Judge.

Plaintiff in error was indicted, charged with selling and giving away intoxicating liquor, to wit, whisky, .to one Fannie Lasley, the said Fannie Lasley then and there being an Osage Indian, to whom an allotment of land had been made, the title to which is being held in trust by the government, and the said Fannie Lasley then and there being a ward of the government in charge of an Indian superintendent.

Upon being arraigned on March 2, 1927, the plaintiff in error pleaded not guilty. In October following he asked leave to withdraw his plea and file a demurrer. The…