United States v. Kagama
Supreme Court of the United States
certificate of division in opinion from the circuit court of THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The case is brought here by certificate of division of opinion between the Circuit Judge and the District Judge holding the Circuit Court of the United States for District of California.
The questions certified arise on a demurrer to an indictment against two Indians for murder committed on the Indian reservation of Hoopa Yalley, in the State of California, the person murdered being also an Indian of said reservation.
Though there are six questions certified as the subject of difference, the point of them all is well set out in the third and sixth, which are as follows:
“ 3. Whether the…
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