Legal Opinion
United States v. Betty Jean Heath
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 26, 1974No. 74--1624PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JAMESON, District Judge:
Defendant-appellant, Betty Jean Heath, appeals from a conviction for voluntary manslaughter following a non-jury trial.
Proceedings in District Court
On August 3, 1973 appellant was charged by indictment as follows:
“That on or about July 18, 1973, at the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, within the Indian Country, in the District of Oregon, Betty Jean Heath, defendant herein, an Indian, did unlawfully and with malice aforethought, shoot and kill Teeman Heath, a human being and enrolled member of the Warm Springs Indian Tribe; in violation of Sections 1111 and 1153,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Jimmy Floyd Sewell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1969
- United States v. Gregory Wayne CluchetteCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1972
- Thomas Henry, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1971
- Pon v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1948
- Charles Mull v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1969
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3Cited by53 opinions
- United States v. AntelopeSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- United States v. Larry Burdette JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1980
- United States v. Walter Dale BroncheauCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1979
- United States v. Ricco Devon PrentissCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2001
- United States v. Violet BruceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2005
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