United States v. Ewing
District Court, D. South Dakota
At Law. On demurrer to an indictment for a larceny .committed on an Indian reservation.
1Opinion of the CourtShiras, J.
In the indictment found in this case the defendants are-charged with the crime of larceny, it being averred that they, on the 16th day of April, 1889, did steal live horses, the property of one Thomas Hunter, an Indian of the Sioux tribe, the venue of the offense being laid in Charles Mix county, in the district of South Dakota, within the Great Sioux Indian reservation and within the Indian country. The indictment does not state whether the defendants are Indians or white men; and in support of the demurrer it is urged that this court does not have jurisdiction of crimes committed by white…
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