Browning v. United States

BOOTH, District Judge.

Plaintiff in error was indicted, tried, and convicted for having in his possession on or about the 19th of February, 1922, intoxicating liquor “in and upon the Indian country, to wit, Osage county, Oklahoma.”

The prosecution was had, according to the statement of counsel’ for plaintiff in error, under Act June 30, 1919, c. 4, § 1 (41 Stat. 4 [Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 4137aa]); but, according to the statement of counsel for defendant in error, under Act May 25, 1918, e. 86, § 1 (40 Stat. 563 [Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 4137aa]), which, so far as here…