Legal Opinion

Apapas v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 11, 1914No. 746PublishedCited by 11 opinions

ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. •The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of this court to review judgments of the District Court under § 238, Judicial Code, are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White

Ten persons described as Indians were, in July 1912, indicted for the murdér of William H. Stanley, a white person, “at, upon and within the limits of a United States Indian Reservation, known as the Cahuilla Indian Reservation, in the County of Riverside, within the Southern Division of the Southern District of California, and within the jurisdiction” of the court below, in violation of §§ 273, 275 and 328 of the Penal Code of 1909. As the result of a trial, four of the accused were acquitted and the six who are plaintiffs in error here were convicted of murder in the second degree and…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. United States v. KagamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
  2. Donnelly v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
  3. United States v. SandovalSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
  4. United States v. CelestineSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
  5. Chappell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Thomas Henry, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1971
  2. State v. MonroeMontana Supreme Court · 1929
  3. Acosta v. County of San DiegoCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1954
  4. Davis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1929
  5. In re Stinger EstateMontana Supreme Court · 1921

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