United States v. Pelican
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the District Court of the United States over crimes committed within Indian country, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Mu. Justice Hughes
delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendants were indicted for the murder, on August 30,1913, of Ed Louie, a full-blood Indian and a member of the Colville tribe. It was charged that the crime was committed “at a point about nine miles northwest of the town of Curlew, in the county of Eerry, State bf Washington, in the Indian country, to wit, upon the allotment of one Agnes, an Indian, being lot three of section twenty-six, and lot nine of section thirty-five, in township forty north, of range thirty-two, E. W. M., in the Northern Division of the Eastern District of…
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