Legal Opinion
In re McDonough
District Court, D. Montana
Decided February 5, 1892PublishedCited by 13 opinions
Petition by W. J. McDonough ■f'>r a writ of habeas corpus to release him from imprisonment on a complaint before a United States commissioner for selling beer to an Indian.
1Opinion of the Court
Knowles, District Judge.
The petitioner was arrested on complaint made before a United States circuit court commissioner for selling to an Indian in charge of an Indian agent spirituous liquor, to-wit, one bottle of beer. Section 2139 of the Revised Statutes of the United States provides :
“Every person (except an Indian in the Indian country) who sells, exchanges, gives, barters, or disposes of any spirituous liquors or wine to an Indian under the charge of any Indian superintendent or agent * * * shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years, and by a fine of not more than…
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