Bailey v. United States

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

The appellants were convicted upon a charge of smuggling thirty-two head of cattle from Mexico into the United States in violation of 19 USCA § 497. The appellants are Indians belonging to the Papago Tribe, living upon the Indian reservation reserved for that tribe in Southern Arizona, bounded on the south by the line between the United States and Mexico. The cattle were purchased in Mexico and driven across the international boundary line into the Indian reservation where they were at the time of their seizure by the customs officials of the United States. It is…